In addition to being Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke and Labyrinth's Goblin King, David Bowie almost took on another persona: Gandalf the Grey.
That's according to Dominic Monaghan, who played Merry the Hobbit in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Photos: David Bowie through the years
During his press tour for the new season of Wild Things, his BBC America nature series, he started talking Tolkien with The Huffington Post.
"I was at the Hubbard's, which is a pretty notorious casting agency office in London, doing an audition for Lord of the Rings, and when it ended I went over and talked to John Hubbard, who was running the audition, and he said, 'Hey, it went really well. You should wait around for 5 or 10 mins. We'll give you some feedback," He continued, "I thought, 'Oh, OK, cool, and I sat in the reception office. As I was reading a magazine waiting, 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 was lucky enough to know his son now so just seeing him in person was pretty special to me."
