However, such details pale into insignificance when compared with the tremendous efforts made by the special effects teams. Jackson insisted that a specific culture should be created for each of the various species that inhabit Middle Earth, and so a team of designers set about creating them, including a team of swordsmiths who made weapons using the same processes as those used hundreds of years ago, a team of dialogue coaches who taught actors how to pronounce languages that Tolkien had dreamed up, and a team of make up artists who worked with the actors on a daily basis, as it required an hour to add Elf ears to actresses like Liv Tyler, and between two and three hours for Hobbit feet to be added to a whole village of actors.