Sallah is Gimli?! Excuse me while I have a heart attack. A 6’1 tall actor played Gimli?! Excuse me while I have another heart attack.
Were you all aware of this? I can’t have been the only one!
Yes, we did know this.
CGI effects if I remember correctly.
That was fast.
Yeah. I feel ashamed of myself.
He also did the voice of Treebeard.
This is certainly not breaking news.
The actors that played the hobbits weren’t particularly short, either.
I knew that, but all this time I thought that they’d casted a little person as Gimli. >.<
They actually used surprisingly little CGI to create the effect. John-Rhys Davies was proportionally the right size against the size of the actors playing the hobbits. The sets were built on 2 different scales, one for the hobbits and Gimli, another for everyone else. Forced perspective was used a lot.
Here’s an old thread discussing the techniques employed.
When yo say “not particularly short”, what do you mean? They weren’t Hobbit short, of course, but they all look shorter than average to me. Dominic Monaghan is 5’ 7". Average height for men in the UK is 5’ 10".
Let’s put it this way: between the beard, the armor and the helmet, they could use a body double for any shot longer than a closeup. The hobbits were tougher to do.
Ian McKellan’s not a real wizard either, sorry to break it to you!
Within two standard deviations of the mean.
So they used CGI to make him look like one? 
That and a pointy hat. Which does make me think, if I were a wizard, I’d take off my hat and get up to all kinds of undercover shenanigans with people non the wiser!
This thread is so 2001.
Holy crap, Elrond is Agent Smith?!
I knew that since before Fellowship came out.
This is one where I have to admit I was wrong. I first heard way back when that they were going to use normal size actors to play the hobbits and dwarves and make it work with trick camera angles. And I was one of the people who said that was a stupid idea that could never work.
And I was wrong. Jackson was able to pull it off and it worked so flawlessly most people didn’t even realize he was doing it.
Ok. That I did not know.
You lie!