Fact Bomb of the Day FBOTD: The Lord of the Rings
Eight of the nine actors who played the Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings got matching '9' tattoos in elvish script, except for John Rhys-Davies, whose stunt double got it instead!
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- During the filming of The Lord of the Rings, Sean Bean was so afraid of flying that he chose to ride a ski lift to the top of a mountain and then hiked the rest of the way in his full Boromir costume to reach the set.
- Many people believe that Gandalf and the other wizards are humans with magical powers, but in the lore, they are actually angelic beings sent to Middle-earth in the form of old men.
- Christopher Lee, the actor who played Saruman, was the only person in the entire cast who had actually met J.R.R. Tolkien in person, and he made it a yearly tradition to re-read The Lord of the Rings every single year.
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