I suspect the Ian McK quote that davem cited refers to the many characters from LOTR which are not in THE HOBBIT. Outside of Gandalf, Elrond and Gollum, and of course Bilbo but that is a different and younger actor - which other actors would be needed? They could find something for Galadriel and Saruman as part of the White Council but you can think of two dozen roles and actors who were in LOTR that are simply not needed for this.
I think that is what Sir Ian means by the disguised as dwarves line .... Boyd, Astin, Wood, etc.
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