Nesbitt to train as dwarf for Tolkien adaptation

James Nesbitt is to undergo a month of "dwarf training" for ‘The Hobbit’.

Nesbitt to train as dwarf for Tolkien adaptation

James Nesbitt is to undergo a month of "dwarf training" for ‘The Hobbit’.

The Northern Irish actor – who has been cast as Bofur in Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien novel 'The Hobbit' – will be required to learn how to sword fight and ride horses while wearing his dwarf prosthetics.

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