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'So we yelled to a yellow tennis ball representing the mad maia' - Lord of the Rings news - J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

October 03, 2000 at 03:17:07

Sir Ian McKellen has also updated his famed Grey Books section with loads of new information. Fans who were disgusted by the October update at E! Online will be very, very pleased with Sir Ian's reports.

More my style is the chestnut Rastus who plays Bill the pony and is adorable. The compliant, ever-licking Rastus is 11 years old, an American quarter horse crossed with Shetland. Led by Samwise (Sean Astin) he reliably carried the Fellowship's baggage and endured the uncomfortable snowstorm of polystyrene and rice flakes when Saruman's agents attacked the nine of us in the Wellington studio en route for Moria. He was less fazed by the tempest than the rest of the cast, even though he didn't have blinkers on.