[Mithalwen]

While that is fab casting Narfforc (and may I suggest that Galion would be a nice cameo for the wondrous Bill Nighy), I think it maybe isn't quite what Tuor meant.

Given the technological advances in the interim, I suppose that it was inevitable that the studio (and maybe directors) would go for standard size actors scaled down rather than short actors for the hobbit/dwarf roles, thus enabling bigger names to take such important roles for such an expensive film. But despite the wizardry I find a lot of the scenes with mixed scale actors a bit clunky and perhaps inevitably when the actors are interacting with a ball on a stick not each other, they often lack the naturalness of the scenes between Willow and Madmartigan.

Warwick Davis plays Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter films but is still only in his late thirties I think and so could easily have played one of the hobbits.