When we went to see the final part of 'Lord of the Rings', the whole cinema erupted into laughter at the funny little hobbits at the end. On Midweek Ian Holm just revealed that at least some people on the film knew how awful it was. After talking about the mask/makeup debate, and enjoying the fact that a man in his 70's had to be aged up to be Bilbo, he said:

'But did you see the model? At the end? When Bilbo waddles onto the boat?'

He and Libby had a laugh about the idea that they had gone through all that work on special effects throughout the three movies and then just shoved a wig on a model at the end.

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