Turns out David Bowie really did audition for The Lord Of The Rings
Dominic Monaghan, who played the hobbit Merry in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, has confirmed a long-standing rumor that full-time music pioneer/part-time actor David Bowie tried to secure a part in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy series. “I was at the Hubbard’s, which is a pretty notorious casting agency office in London, doing an audition for Lord of the Rings,” Monaghan told The Huffington Post. “As I was reading a magazine waiting [after auditioning], David Bowie came in and signed his little list and went in. And I’m assuming he read for Gandalf. I can’t think of anything else he would’ve read for. He may have read for something else, but I’m a huge David Bowie fan, and I [am] lucky enough to know his son now so just seeing him in person was pretty special to me.”