27 animals die during Hobbit filming - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

radagastly · 11-20-2012, 09:53 PM

I'll be interested to see if they change the closing credits. Usually, at least in the U.S. releases, films that use animals include the tagline, "No animals were harmed during the filming of this movie." I wonder if they'll mention something about this. An acknowledgement of the sacrifice that these animals endured would be nice. That many animals in one place, over that long of time, some would probably have been injured anyway. I also wonder if this is the same farm that was used for the filming of the Lord of the Rings movies. I guess that whichever Animal Rights society was in charge of monitoring the production should have investigated the boarding facilities before the production began. PETA should be mad at them, not at the production company.

I guess that, as much as I love my own animal, we don't know enough to be sure whether the Producers of The Hobbit are directly responsible, or if they did as much as they could. My heart goes out to those people who loved those 27 animals that are now gone (I hope each of these animals had someone to love them, and they weren't just treated as property.)

This just makes me sad. That should be enough.

11-20-2012, 09:53 PM	#10
radagastly Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Washington, D. C., USA Posts: 299	I'll be interested to see if they change the closing credits. Usually, at least in the U.S. releases, films that use animals include the tagline, "No animals were harmed during the filming of this movie." I wonder if they'll mention something about this. An acknowledgement of the sacrifice that these animals endured would be nice. That many animals in one place, over that long of time, some would probably have been injured anyway. I also wonder if this is the same farm that was used for the filming of the Lord of the Rings movies. I guess that whichever Animal Rights society was in charge of monitoring the production should have investigated the boarding facilities before the production began. PETA should be mad at them, not at the production company. I guess that, as much as I love my own animal, we don't know enough to be sure whether the Producers of The Hobbit are directly responsible, or if they did as much as they could. My heart goes out to those people who loved those 27 animals that are now gone (I hope each of these animals had someone to love them, and they weren't just treated as property.) This just makes me sad. That should be enough. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before, I listen for returning feet and voices at the door. Last edited by radagastly; 11-20-2012 at 10:14 PM.