sentences:  Some of the videos also purport to be shot by Peeder himself, and in one instance, due to illness, Peeder claims to have let Sir Ian McKellen make one.The first video in the series was posted to Funny or Die in January 2011, almost a year and a half before Peter Jackson began uploading his own official production diaries of the making of the Hobbit.In July 2012 Empire Magazine published a full-page interview with Jigson about the shooting of the movies.