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"John Rhys-Davies has ruled out appearing in The Hobbit films. Rhys-Davies, who portrayed dwarf Gimli in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, told Empire, that he has no desire to come back and play Gimli&amp;#039;s father Gloin, who appears in author JRR Tolkien&amp;#039;s novel on which the new films are based. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve already been asked and to be honest with you, I wouldn&amp;#039;t,&amp;quot; the British actor said. &amp;quot;I have already completely ruled it out. There&amp;#039;s a sentimental part of me that would love to be involved again. Really I am not sure my face can take that sort of punishment any more.&amp;quot; Rhys-Davies admitted that even the prospect of a small cameo wouldn&amp;#039;t tempt him back to the fantasy series: &amp;quot;Why would you want to do it if it was just a couple of shots? When you&amp;#039;ve been 1 of 1, why would you want to be 1 of 13?&amp;quot; The 65-year-old noted that The Hobbit presented filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson with &amp;quot;a different set of problems&amp;quot; from the previous franchise entries. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve got 13 dwarves, a whole band of them,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re trying to represent a whole race... You&amp;#039;re trying to do for dwarves what The Lord Of The Rings did for hobbits.&amp;quot; Gandalf actor Sir Ian McKellen recently said that he expects the two Hobbit films to be shooting for more than a year. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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