Christopher Lee rambling about wizards
May. 19th, 2012 03:01 pmI've just finished going through my old youtube account to see what I should transfer to my better-organized new youtube account, and I ran into this clip.
1. I think Mr. Lee's short-term memory is a bit on the out? Not that I'm judging, I'm like 1/3 his age and I left my keys in the front door the other day and a passing neighbor luckily alerted me instead of stealing them...
2. He mentions all five wizards BY NAME, you guys, even the Ithryn Luin. Christopher Lee is the coolest Tolkien geek ever.
3. 1:25, when he says "Gandalf!" his expression is quite comical.
4. I love both Mr. Lee and the character he portrays, but I'm going to have to disagree with him about some points concerning Saruman:
- Saruman was not "a good man" during the time of The Hobbit. Not that he was necessarily "a bad man" either, but both statements would be oversimplifying things.
- "Tolkien never explained, to the best of my knowledge, in any of the books, how it was that Saruman went [...] from good to evil." Really? Jealousy, power hunger, impatience, urge to prove himself, those all seem evident enough just from the trilogy, never mind the broader canon (not that I've given this more thought than a sane person would).
1. I think Mr. Lee's short-term memory is a bit on the out? Not that I'm judging, I'm like 1/3 his age and I left my keys in the front door the other day and a passing neighbor luckily alerted me instead of stealing them...
2. He mentions all five wizards BY NAME, you guys, even the Ithryn Luin. Christopher Lee is the coolest Tolkien geek ever.
3. 1:25, when he says "Gandalf!" his expression is quite comical.
4. I love both Mr. Lee and the character he portrays, but I'm going to have to disagree with him about some points concerning Saruman:
- Saruman was not "a good man" during the time of The Hobbit. Not that he was necessarily "a bad man" either, but both statements would be oversimplifying things.
- "Tolkien never explained, to the best of my knowledge, in any of the books, how it was that Saruman went [...] from good to evil." Really? Jealousy, power hunger, impatience, urge to prove himself, those all seem evident enough just from the trilogy, never mind the broader canon (not that I've given this more thought than a sane person would).