Where did Hollywood find so many little people to play Hobbits in LORD OF THE RI

Question:Did they really find that many talented midgets and dwarfs? or were the tall people on stilts? Probably computer graphics which I don't understand.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Did they really find that many talented midgets and dwarfs? or were the tall people on stilts? Probably computer graphics which I don't understand.

lol they didn't really

They used a combination of techniques in addition to computer technology.

The biggie is called "forced perspective." In this method, smaller characters are in the background, and larger ones are in the foreground, and they play the scene out as though they're sitting beside or across from each other. In this situation, say Gandalf and Frodo were sitting across from each other eating dinner at Frodo's. Ian McKellen would have been in the extreme foreground, with appropriate extra small eating utensiles. Elijah Wood would have been in the extreme background, eating from regular sized utensils. They'd pretend to be making eye contact, even though they're sitting as far as about 12 feet apart from each other.

They also used replica sets and props. If they were in Hobbit world, all items would have been made regular sized for Hobbits and extra small for all larger characters. The two scenes, not filmed together, are married in the editing room.

And they used doubles. I believe three very very short adults (but not midgets or dwarves), and one child, played the four main doubles. In longer shots, they were often used, made up to look just like the four actors.

Haha

They use a lot of CGI and the stunt doubles for the four boys were from Thailand.

Kansas.

There is a conduit that MGM established in the 1940's between Kansas and Oz. Mostly they use this conduit to transport folks from Munchkinland for movies requiring especially small actors. A Munchkin was used to play the part of C3PO in the Star Wars movies, one of the best known character actors prior to the Lord of the Rings.

Prior to the manufactured conduit, they used a naturally, but unpredictable method of transport involving houses and weather storms. This method was abolished in 1939 when an important resident of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the East, was inadvertantly killed during a transport session.