User blog comment:WaglingtonŒ/Remembering Christopher Lee/@comment-3112181-20150611230402/@comment-3112181-20150611230544

Also, fun fact: he was the only actor in the Lord of the Rings series to have actually personally met JRR Tolkien, and read the books at the time of their publication.

And his cousin was Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond novels.

Smallllll world