Wargs behind-the-scenes


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It’s really exciting, eh? We’re gonna have a fight and scrap with a warg!

Peter Jackson and Richard Taylor explain how they was never hugely happy with the hyena-like warg design from The Two Towers (ed: a lot of viewers never liked them either), and the process the production crew went through to settle on a new wolf-inspired design for the Hobbit.



Spiders behind the scenes


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Things happen in that forest that are the stuff of nightmares. Certainly my nightmares. Big spiders.

Definitely not a clip for arachnophobes (ie: me!). Free chance to freak yourself out all over again over Frodo getting poisoned by Shelob in Lord of the Rings! Shudder.