10x04 - Beorn: The Shape-shifter | Hobbit Behind the Scenes

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Published 2022-05-30

The Peoples and Denizens of Middle-earth gives us detailed look on the characters, from concept design and costuming to their respective weapons, and the performances of the cast. Beorn is portrayed by Mikael Persbrandt in the films The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies. His appearance in the films is quite different than his description in the book and portrayals in other media. In the films, he has greyish-brown hair, a forked beard, shackles on his left arm, and a mane of hair growing as a ridge down the length of his back. Beorn was a Northman, skin-changer, and a Beorning chieftain who lived near the river Anduin between Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains. His kin lived in that region during the last centuries of the Third Age, guarding the Ford of Carrock from the Goblins and Wargs. In terms of new participants, we find material from Weta Workshop creative director Richard Taylor, The History of “The Hobbit” author John D. Rateliff, JRR Tolkien: Author of the Century author Tom Shippey.

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All Comments (17)

@brettmuir5679 2 months ago

Beorn is the Bombadill of the Hobbit
@lupin2361 1 year ago

I love how when Mikael was asked if he observed the wolves to research the role, he just looked at the guy like he was joking and said “I went there with my kids”. It just goes to show that he’s only intimidating on the outside. A perfect fit for Beorn
@thatsprettyfare 1 year ago

thank you for posting this series i thought it was gonna be lost forever !!
@luminoustarisma 1 year ago

I love how he calls himself Björn... this likely goes above and beyond English speakers, but Björn is the Swedish word for bear, and considering the similarities (I cannot prove), that the name Beorn is an Anglophication of the Scandinavian word for bear Björn/Bjørn
@ElSueno97 1 year ago

I think they did great with Beorn, but they should’ve kept his blue eyes, he is Scandinavian. They kept his accent they should’ve kept the ice blue eyes
@annatragardh6001 1 year ago

Mikael is great lol
@remyazharyyosef1811 8 months ago

For some reason, as I was reading the book in my teens I'd always pictured Beron to be played by James Earl Jones. Perhaps for his gravitas and stature.
@pipsqueex 14 days ago

i really like the first drawing they show @ 0:09
@dibujosinlimitesmp 5 months ago

Might have also been inspired by the story of Cú Chulainn
@johanfogby5788 11 months ago

hi, can you tell me how to get hold of all this content like this, for example, which blu ray disk should I buy and that.
@nikolaygeorgiev6096 14 days ago

I wish i had been Beorn , s a ruff mountain man , but i was 8 in 2014 so wasn't going to happen
@MegaMacReal 2 months ago

All his long hair made him more wolf or horse than bear, to me
@patrickpatacsil8161 3 months ago

Was he born a bear or was he born a man? I could imagine that Q popping up in help with getting into the character
@fullcomicalchemist2195 1 year ago

I hated the depiction of Beorn in the film and he's actually my fav character and chapter in the book. I liked the bear but not the Beorn human form.
@jonathanlarsson4608 4 months ago

Not crazy about how Beorn was depicted in the movies. The Beorn of the book is no doubt a powerful and fierce character, but as we discover, that's just one side of him. He is also quite warm and hospitable once he drops his guard, to the point that he welcomes Gandalf and Bilbo and lets them stay with him for a while on their way back from Erebor. In general, the Hobbit films took themselves too seriously. Being too hell-bent on matching the style and tone of the LOTR films, I think they lacked the charm and coming of age aspects of the book it was based on.
@thegoblonoid 3 months ago

Beorn looks absolutely ridiculous and I hate it. No subtlety at all, which is common with Peter Jackson. Should have toned it down a whole lot more imo.