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⌈ Secret Post #2576 ⌋

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Comments

[ryttu3k]

Elijah Wood probably is a bit too 'pretty' (and honestly, he should look to be around a similar age as Merry and Sam, and Pippin should be the one who looks the youngest), yeah, but I disagree that the forced perspective and everything to make them look smaller didn't work!

I just came back from New Zealand, where I did a few Lord of the Rings tours, and they actually put a lot of work into it - the Hobbiton set has full-size Hobbit hole exteriors as well as ones that are scaled down for when Gandalf is in front of them, complete with scaled props, they actually made two soundstages for Bag End (human-scale for the Hobbit actors, smaller for Gandalf, again), and even things like filming the scene where they escape the Shire had special consideration - using specific sizes of trees, as well as artificial ones, because some trees were too narrow and would look tiny next to the Hobbits.

I think one of the biggest issues (heh, 'biggest') is that they did actually change the size of the Hobbits compared to the books? They were aiming for a height of about four-ish feet, IIRC (there's a height chart which has Bilbo and the dwarves, and Bilbo is listed as 4'2" - which is only three inches shorter than Bullroarer Took), which is a fair bit bigger than book!Hobbits. On the other hand, trying to realistically have a character be three feet tall instead of four would have looked... really awkward, I think. That extra foot makes all the difference!