In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins embarks on an adventure with a band of dwarves looking to reclaim their lost homeland. During the film, which is the first installment in the big-screen trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and various other stories and appendix materials from the author, the wizard Gandalf is seen several times rattling off the names of the 13 dwarves to make sure all members are accounted for (at the meeting at Bilbo’s home; after the encounter with the goblins).

Recently, Empire magazine asked Jackson, Ian McKellen (who plays Gandalf), and some of the actors who portray the dwarves how quickly they could name all the dwarves. Check out the video here below to see who’s able to name them all the fastest.

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