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DainPig
Mithlond
Feb 9 2016, 3:21am
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Why not a boar?
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Why is Dain riding me... a pig? A boar would be more threatening... just saying'.
How aaaaaaaaaaaaaare you all???
Hey guys, this is my blog: dainpigblog.blogspot.com
Dain Ironfoot has come!! And his pig's here too! It's going to be a great feast tonight, we are gonna eat Dain's pig! :0
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Otaku-sempai
Elvenhome
Feb 9 2016, 3:23am
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A lot of us have said the same thing.
"Things need not to have happened to be true.
Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure
when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
- Dream of the Endless
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ange1e4e5
Mithlond
Feb 9 2016, 3:23am
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Dain kinda looked like a boar anyways.
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DainPig
Mithlond
Feb 9 2016, 3:31am
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Lol, I see this 
How aaaaaaaaaaaaaare you all???
Hey guys, this is my blog: dainpigblog.blogspot.com
Dain Ironfoot has come!! And his pig's here too! It's going to be a great feast tonight, we are gonna eat Dain's pig! :0
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Mooseboy018
Hithlum
Feb 9 2016, 4:51am
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Because PJ probably thought it was funny and just decided to go with it.
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Earl
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Feb 9 2016, 5:33am
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The pig looks stupid! It needs to be said :-)
The concepts for the boar are amazing. Actually, many of the concepts for these films were amazing, but in some cases, something went wrong between the concept and the execution.
The Hobbit Soundtracks - Being an online archive of information concerning Howard Shore's score for The Hobbit films.
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LSF
Mithlond
Feb 9 2016, 7:42am
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I like that, as fearsome and threatening as Dain himself looks, his mount isn't as much so.
A boar would look more threatening yeah, but i like this for Dain's character. And really, i still wouldn't want his armoured pig charging at me.
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Avandel
Gondolin
Feb 9 2016, 8:12am
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I would have preferred a fierce boar. And yet, with Dain's character, that salty toughness - somehow I can see THIS Dain having a great big 'ol pig that he's fond of. It's kind of another up-yours note to the character. Love me, love my pig.
Besides, it has not happened to me, but apparently pigs can be pretty vicious.
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dormouse
Gondolin
Feb 9 2016, 9:43am
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Pigs can be very dangerous animals.
And in this case he's riding a pig because Peter Jackson likes that particular pig. His choice - I think she looks good.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green. . .
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Noria
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Feb 9 2016, 1:08pm
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I would have preferred a fighting boar but the pig was so cute and Dain looked so awesome on it that I don't care.
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Fereth
Ossiriand
Feb 9 2016, 2:01pm
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The fierce and salty dwarf warrior riding the cute little pig also contrasts nicely with high-n-mighty Thranduil riding his over-the-top magnificent Irish elk. 
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moreorless
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Feb 9 2016, 4:28pm
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I think a pig worked better against the wood elves...
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My guess is that the intension was to play up Dain as the opposite Thranduil and the wood elves by having him ride a "working class" down to earth animal. You could argue a Boar would have had a similar effect but I think a pig worked better because its more of a farm animal where as you could associate a boar with hunting like thranduil's Stag.
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Kilidoescartwheels
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Feb 9 2016, 8:39pm
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Yeah I agree, I would have liked a boar with big tusks better - and it would have matched Dain's beard, LOL!
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Avandel
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Feb 10 2016, 10:22pm
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LOL, that's the fun of it - agree!
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You can hear the pig snorting as he approaches Thranduil - ROFLOL
What a contrast 
And it's a nice touch too, seeing them both in the EE fighting not far from each other.
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