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When you have the ultimate nerd flex, you make sure everybody knows it. Sir Christopher Lee, who played the dark wizard Saruman, bumped into the legendary author J.R.R. Tolkien at an Oxford pub in the 1950s. He was such a massive fan of the books that he made a habit of reading the entire trilogy once a year. When Peter Jackson began casting, Lee didn't just want to be in it—he demanded to be involved because he considered it a holy mandate from Tolkien himself.
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