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Dracula/Star Wars/Lord of the Rings Actor Dies


Christopher Lee was the only cast member of LOTR to have met J.R.R. Tolkien in person (he met him in a pub.)

The Eagle & Child in Oxford I believe. I've been there several times too, though I failed to meet either Christopher Lee or J.R.R. Tolkien.

I'm in a slightly maudlin mood today as I spent part of it digging up my garden whilst listening to The Paracast's roundtable tribute to John Keel (which is some fantastic radio if you haven't heard it) and the mood that conveyed was one of a golden age slowly ending and the news of Lee's death has done nothing to assuage this. Even if I did spend a huge part of my life confusing him with Vincent Price...
 
Like dead UFO cases that keep coming back to life, you just can't kill a vampire. He'll be back.
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