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They do - and aim for WETA, not ILM. Most of the stuff you see in The Hobbit trilogy is hand built. They do emphasize a lot the physical part of the job.

It adds realism and helps a lot with the later CGI. You can see the effects of not using props vs using them extensively looking at the differences between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III.

Also they are needed by the actors to actually focus on the things around them: in Episode II many times you see Ewan McGregor speaking to some aliens while staring a mile behind them... because he only had a marked point on a wall to speak to.

In The Hobbit Ian McKellen was forced to act in a normal sized room while the dwarves were in a oversized set with syncronized cameras and audio stream, he had only lightbulbs with names to speak to when acting and he broke down crying almost giving up on the project for the difficulty of acting without a human feedback. Props, actual objects and stand-ins are a necessity both for the human factor in movies and for the CGI team - what already exists doesn't have to be modelized.
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