| On this site, there is a
great deal of information about the filming of the Lord of the
Rings trilogy. Whilst I was in New Zealand with Peter Jackson’s
film crews (on some days there were four or five units working
simultaneously in and around the Wellington studios) I recorded my
impressions in the Grey Book – named
for Gandalf the Grey, the wizard who leads the Fellowship of The
Ring in its fight against Sauron, the Lord of the Rings. My
journal continued as The White Book. It is
difficult to catalogue the entries but I hope reading
them in or out of order will convey the fascination and excitement
of bringing Tolkien’s masterpiece to the big screen.
Since I was cast as Gandalf (the
Grey and the White) I have been responding to enquiries about
specifics in my Lord of the Rings E-posts,
which are soon to be catalogued for easy reference. The most frequently
asked questions to date now have their own page. Throughout, my
views are my own, sometimes indiscreet but not intended to
challenge the authoritative information on the official
LOTR site. — Ian McKellen, October 2001 |
