The Hobbit Dwarves – Nori, Ori, and Dori

If you have been following BoomTron‘s faithful coverage of the making of The Hobbit, then you already know the two films in the daring prequel features “a bunch of snarky dwarves.” That’s a direct quote from our story on the recent Middle Earth themed Empire magazine cover story. Now it is time to meet those crazy dwarves.

The official Facebook page for the films released today’s photograph of Nori, Ori and Dori. Leave it to Tolkien to come up with such fun names.

Here’s a note of explanation:

JED BROPHY as Nori, ADAM BROWN as Ori and MARK HADLOW as Dori in New Line Cinema’s and MGM’s fantasy adventure THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by James Fisher.

DORI, NORI & ORI
These three brothers, all sons of the same mother, could not be more different from each other. Dori, the oldest, spends much of his time watching out for Ori, the youngest; making sure he’s not caught a chill or got himself killed by Wargs or Goblins. Nobody quite knows what Nori gets up to most of the time, except that it’s guaranteed to be dodgy and quite probably, illegal. Dori, Nori and Ori are intensely loyal to each other – and whilst they are perfectly happy fighting amongst themselves, woe-betide anyone who means harm to one of these brothers.

There was also a lovely look at Bilbo in Entertainment Weekly, dontcha know! And say, am I the only one who thinks its weird that Lost’s Evangeline Lily was recently cast? Other actors you will identify in the films are Orlando Bloom, a certain Sherlock actor, some sort of barbarian (…?), and golden girl Saoirse Ronan. Of course Galadriel and Gandolph are back, too.