Last Dwarves Revealed!

The wait is finally over! Having given us a torturously slow trickle of portraits of the dwarves that we'll see in his upcoming Hobbit movie over the last week or so, Peter Jackson has at last given us the final faces. Balin, played by Ken Stott (UK TV series Rebus and Messiah), has lived through countless battles though feels that the horde's mission to the Lonely Mountain is not the best of ideas, and Dwalin, played by Graham McTavish (ER, The Bill, and soon on the bigscreen in Colombiana) who doesn't agree. Though hostile to all non-dwarf members of the company, he entirely trusts the leadership of Thorin Oakenshield the dwarf leader. And Thorin, played by Richard Armitage (Spooks, Robin Hood, Captain America), heroically fights by Gandalf's side but that doesn't stop him being a real badass. This fierce fighter experienced the downfall of the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor and the Hobbits' quest gives him the chance to get revenge.

You can catch the original scoop on Balin and Dwalin at Time, and the ferocious Thorin at Tolkien fansite The One Ring.