Years of pre-production for the trilogy: 3
Number of days of principle photography: 266
Estimated budget per film: $250-315 million
Employed crew members: main unit 500; second unit 200; digital effects artists 850; art department 350
Principle cast: 22
Drawings made by conceptual designers Alan Lee and John Howe: 5,000 (approx.)
Number of visual effects shots created by Weta Digital: 2,176
Digital cameras: 48
Sets: 115
Locations: 30
Helicopters used for location scouting: 5
People served by catering on location, per day: 580
Personalized hobbit holes in the Hobbiton set: 44
Total dwarves (including scale doubles and stand-ins): 39
Months of training in stunt fighting, horse riding, and “dwarf movement”: 3
Prosthetic make-up applications (noses, feet, hands, etc): 5,000
Liters of glue used for prosthetics: 20
Layers of sound elements used for a typical goblin grunt: 16
Musicians used to record soundtrack at Abbey Road Studios: 93
Formats for the film’s release: 6 (2-D in 24 frames per second, 2-D in 48 fps, 3-D in 24 fps, 3-D in 48 fps, IMAX 3-D in 24 fps, and IMAX 3-D in 48 fps)
Likes on Peter Jackson’s Facebook page: 668,000
Years Elijah Wood has aged since shooting “Rings”: 11
Days “An Unexpected Journey” was completed before its premier: 2
[Note: Some material drawn from “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Production Videos,” and “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Official Movie Guide” by Brian Sibley. Figures current as of press time.]