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TIL that Leonard Nimoy (the man that is famous for playing Spock) performed a slightly bizarre and extremely campy song called The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. It was followed by a campaign to cast him as Aragorn in a live-action rendition of Lord of the Rings.

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