So let me understand...

What Peter said about this issue?

Okay now I understand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfTDt9cV16w

Dylan Postl dwarf actor summary it nice: "Him being progressive is eliminating seven potential dream jobs from the dwarf acting community"

Peter is such an asshole

WOW, and to think I loved him on Game of Thrones 😡

It’s hard to remember any movie with worse pre-release vibes than this one. And Disney seems to be just dragging it out which allows the negativity to accumulate.

The original group of humans contained only one little person. They were a diverse group representing many ethnic types and at least two genders.

Say someone is black is not racism.

Come on, leftist morons accepted even Kamala Harris as black. Because blackwashing is so hip... 🙄

So is pointing out a woman is a woman sexist in your world?

Interesting information.

That’s assuming Disney actually plans any of their crap lately.

That photo looks like they paid one little person from central casting for the day, then told six DEI crew members to wear some old Renaissance Faire garb for a photo.

There’s no such thing as real life dwarves.

Even Dinklage is CGI.

Just make a hand drawn animated version instead!

True and I didn't like that at all.
In Peter Jackson's case, his decision was not, as far as I know, influenced by woke ideology or external pressure; however, I believe he made a mistake. Throughout the film, significant effort was required to find special camera angles to emphasize the height differences - and not every time they do a good job.

They used forced perspective and blue screen. John Rhys Davies is over 6 feet tall.

Actually, they mostly chose the actors in the LOTR trilogy based on how well they auditioned for the parts, and making sure they looked right, but there wasn't much they could do about the many of the actors' heights except with post-production. But they definitely put an effort into finding the right people, such as tall actors to play the elves, Nordic-looking people to play the people of Rohan, etc.

The problem with the Hobbits was, according to Tolkien's lore, the tallest adults are on average 3 feet tall. So the casting people had to get creative. For the Hobbits, they simply chose people who looked the part, and had to do a lot of movie magic tricks, such as using dwarf stand-ins for distance shots where you saw the Hobbits from behind, as well as having some actors stand on boxes while others were lower down on the sound stages. A few times, some of the actors playing elves had to stand on boxes or wear elevated shoes under their costumes.

There was even a really fun diagram they made online back in the day where they compared the lead actors' heights with their characters. It was particularly funny with John Rhys Davies, because he's a tall dude, but his character was less than 5 feet because he was a Middle-Earth Dwarf.