In 'The Fellowship of the Ring', how many hobbits are there?
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Fellowship of the Ring" makes extensive use of digital, practical and make-up special effects throughout. One notable illusion used in almost every scene involved setting a proper scale so that the characters all appear to be the correct height. For example, Elijah Wood is tall in real life, but his character Frodo Baggins is barely four feet in height. A variety of techniques were used to depict the hobbits and Gimli the Dwarf as being of diminutive stature. Fortunately, John-Rhys Davies – who played Gimli – happens to be the correct height in proportion to the hobbit actors, so did
The Fellowship of the Ring and Frodo's three Hobbit companions. These Nine Walkers (called the Fellowship or, more properly, the Company of the Ring) are chosen to represent all the free races of Middle-earth and as a balance to the Nazgûl. They are also accompanied by Bill the Pony, whom Aragorn and the Hobbits acquired in Bree as a pack horse. The Fellowship attempt to cross the Misty Mountains is foiled by heavy snow, and then they are attacked by a host of wargs. Thus, they are forced to take a path under the mountains, through the mines of Moria, the ancient dwarf kingdom. There,