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Bilbo is dead: Mourning for the star of "Lord of the Rings" #IanHolm.

by SusanitaLaChismosita

Bilbo is dead - dueling for the star of "Lord of the Rings" Ian Holm. British actor Ian Holm died on Friday. He was known for his role as Bilbo Baggins in the "Lord of the Rings" saga. Holm died at the age of 88. Bilbo Baggins felt "like butter spread on too much bread" and therefore left the Shire in the first part of the saga, Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings". He also did so to see his Elvish friends again. When his nephew Frodo did not want to show him his ring again before he left, the cursed jewel that bewitched its owners and changed them for the worse, and which Frodo was supposed to throw down Doom Mountain's throat, Bilbo was for a moment transformed into a monster that almost drove the spectators from their seats. At the turn of the millennium, British actor Ian Holm played this Bilbo of the realm, fantasized by writer J.R.R. Tolkien in two of the three "Lord of the Rings" films. And just like him, he had always imagined the old, idiosyncratic Hobbingen grump. Now Holm is dead. The son of Scottish parents, born in Essex, a doctor and a nurse, died on Friday in a hospital with his family, although not on his "one hundred and fiftieth birthday", (the "ring" saga begins with Bilbo's birthday party), but at less than the proud age of 88, reports the "Mirror". A message from his management says: "He was charming, kind and incredibly talented, we will miss him very much". Holm had prostate cancer as early as 2001. Then he was diagnosed with Parkinson's. Holm said the Frodo for the BBC stage. Ian Holm has become world famous for his role as bilbo. But even before that, at the age of 50, he spoke on the BBC stage in the "Lord of the Rings" role of Frodo, which Elijah Wood took on in film adaptations. Holm also starred in other well-known films such as, "The Fifth Element" or "The Day After Tomorrow". He was the evil Sir William Gull in Jack The Ripper's comic book adaptation, "From Hell" and the Polonius in Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of "Hamlet". And he was one of the UK's leading theatre actors. The stage has been his passion since he saw a production of Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" at the age of seven. His performance of "King Lear" in Shakespeare's drama at the Royal National Theatre won him the London Critics Circle Theatre Award in 1997, and the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1998. Another cult role: The Ash in "Alien". In addition to Bilbo, another cult role in cinema was that of The Ash in Ridley Scott's hybrid horror-science-fiction film "Alien". Holm played the pedantic science officer on the smelting ship Nostromo, who is not only to blame for the devastating alien organism on board, but also keeps a terrible secret. Ash's silent enthusiasm for the seemingly invincible being leads to the fascist goosebumps phrase: "I admire conceptual purity. Made to survive. No conscience affects it. He knows no guilt or delusions of an ethical nature. " The secret of Holm's art was moderation: "I've always been a minimalist," he once said in an interview. "It was Humphrey Bogart who once said, 'If you think right, the camera will catch them. The most important thing on the face is the eyes, and if you can let the eyes speak, you're halfway there." Holm let his eyes do the talking. In 1998 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services. He leaves his wife and five children.

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