Wranglers say horses, other animals used in ‘Hobbit’ movies died on unsafe NZ farm

Cross-posted from The Washington Post REPORTED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Animal wranglers involved in the making of “The Hobbit” movie trilogy say the production company is responsible for the deaths of up to 27 animals, largely because they were kept at a farm filled with bluffs, sinkholes and other “death traps.”…