Elves and Hobbits!

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Holbytlass

I don't see you as being derogatory, SpM, but to me this implies more of 'little people' rather than hobbits.

No, I wasn't thinking of RL dwarves (ie those with the condition dwarfism), who generally have very distinctive features, nor of RL midgets, whose heads tend to be in proportion to their bodies.

There are a number dwarf and midget actors: as you say the actor who played Willow, Kenny Baker of Star Wars (R2D2) fame and the other actors who starred alongside Kenny Baker in Time Bandits, for example. It would have been an option to use such actors in a film version of LotR. But they would not have looked like the Hobbits of my imagination, so I think that Jackson made the right choice.