<P> Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt portrays Beorn in Peter Jackson 's The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug and in its sequel The Battle of the Five Armies . In the film , he indicates that his people once lived in the Misty Mountains , but were conquered by the Orcs under Azog , who captured and tortured his people for sport and killed them until only one remained . Beorn eventually escaped , but still carries a chain around his wrist from his imprisonment . In the extended edition , Beorn tells Gandalf of the alliance between the Orcs of Moria and the Necromancer of Dol Guldur , and he also inquires about the nine , who have been seen wandering near the High Fells of Rhudaur . Beorn arrives to the Battle of the Five Armies atop a Great Eagle rather than on foot and does not slay Bolg , who is killed by Legolas in the film adaptation ( the Orc commander was also changed to be Azog himself , but Thorin , instead of Beorn , kills Azog in single combat ) . In the DVD commentary , the production team explained that they normally take great care that characters only speak with accents which were historically present in the British Isles , but they made a major exception for Beorn by letting Persbrandt use his natural Swedish accent . They reasoned that Beorn should logically have a very distinctive and foreign - sounding accent , given that he is the last survivor of an isolated race which had little contact with people from regions such as Gondor or the Shire . </P>
<P> Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt portrays Beorn in Peter Jackson 's The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug and in its sequel The Battle of the Five Armies . In the film , he indicates that his people once lived in the Misty Mountains , but were conquered by the Orcs under Azog , who captured and tortured his people for sport and killed them until only one remained . Beorn eventually escaped , but still carries a chain around his wrist from his imprisonment . In the extended edition , Beorn tells Gandalf of the alliance between the Orcs of Moria and the Necromancer of Dol Guldur , and he also inquires about the nine , who have been seen wandering near the High Fells of Rhudaur . Beorn arrives to the Battle of the Five Armies atop a Great Eagle rather than on foot and does not slay Bolg , who is killed by Legolas in the film adaptation ( the Orc commander was also changed to be Azog himself , but Thorin , instead of Beorn , kills Azog in single combat ) . In the DVD commentary , the production team explained that they normally take great care that characters only speak with accents which were historically present in the British Isles , but they made a major exception for Beorn by letting Persbrandt use his natural Swedish accent . They reasoned that Beorn should logically have a very distinctive and foreign - sounding accent , given that he is the last survivor of an isolated race which had little contact with people from regions such as Gondor or the Shire . </P>
who plays the skin changer in the hobbit
who plays the skin changer in the hobbit
Mikael Persbrandt
Mikael Persbrandt