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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ART!" data-source="post: 8177886" data-attributes="member: 79926">Yeah, I don't really see any of the 6'-range height races being a problem. In fact, B5 had G-Kar as a regular, for cryin' out loud. Star Trek: Discovery has Saru, and recently featured a Tiefling-like (in terms of prosthetics and make-up) Andorian.Dragonborn, tieflings, etc. are not a problem. (I know: easy for me to say - I don't have to apply the prosthetics and make-up, or sit in the chair for 2 hours a day or more! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Elves are just ears and maybe eyebrows - and they usually hide the prosthetic ear seams with hair. Another non-issue, if you keep the ears of a practical size.Regarding dwarves and their height - and to a lesser degree (no pun intended) halflings and gnomes and their height: making one actor look taller than another is one of the oldest tricks in the book. They put actors on little boxes or even walkways for walking scenes all the time to make them look taller than they are. They did plenty of that kind of thing in the LOTR movies, too. Obviously it's harder the shorter the race is.I don't think they did scaled replica sets very often in the LOTR movies - the Bag End sets, obviously, but a lot of it was forced perspective, clever camera angles and actor movement, differently-sized body doubles, and the like. I'm not saying any of it is easy, but if they decide they want a gnome main character, they know what they're getting into and it's doable. It actually would make sense to have more than one character from the shorter races, so that when they interact you don't need any (or much) trickery at all.What I do wonder is if they would even want to include halflings, since they're so closely associated with Middle-earth because of the 6 movies (albeit mostly referred to as hobbits therein). I think that's runs the risk of some brand confusion, but I might be overthinking this.</blockquote>

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