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   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:41:56 -0800 (PST), calvin wrote:   
   >   
   > On Dec 13, 8:56 pm, Stan Brown  wrote:   
   > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:09:55 -0000, Tahiri wrote:   
   > > > Kili is far too good looking for a dwarf.   
   > >   
   > > Too tall also. :-)   
   > >   
   > > He played the sexy vampire Mitchell in the first three seasons of   
   > > /Being Human/.   
   >   
   > In a preview, Thorin looks like a man.  I don't believe Tolkien's   
   > conception of dwarves was of them looking like men.   
      
   Shorter and thicker, I think.  I picture them as kind of at the   
   extreme "stocky" end of the spectrum, maybe not recognizably non-   
   human to you or me but definitely not typical human.   
      
   I haven't seen Jackson's version of /The Hobbit/ (and I don't intend   
   to), but I will say that in Jackson's LotR part 1 he did make Rhys-   
   Davies look like a believable dwarf.   
      
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