Favorite women of Middle-earth + important quotes
Tauriel - Costume & Concept Designs
The Hobbit: DoS Chronicles Art & Design
Inspired by Ewebean’s animation.
Tauriel doesn’t take shit from anyone.
"You’re isolating Mirkwood because you don’t want to deal with world issues? Fine, I’m running away to save the Dwarves."
"Don’t talk to the prisoners? Why, ‘cause Thorin’s nephew is more attractive than half the elves here?"
"It’s my fault Legolas fancies me? Go f**k yourself with your antler collection.”
Am now super side-eyeing Thranduil for not talking to Legolas about how he can’t go crushing on Tauriel all the time.
Evangeline Lilly herself was against there being a love triangle, so much so that it was the sole condition of her accepting the role. As she states in this interview for Yahoo!Movies, there was no trace of a triangle during principle photography. Rather, it was a substantial part of reshoots in 2012, as something that the studio felt needed to be included. What that boardroom discussion looked like is something we can only speculate on, but Lilly does her best to play down the subplot in favor of kicking Orc ass.
Am I disappointed that Entertainment Weekly focuses half their article on grilling Evangeline Lilly about whether her character has a romantic subplot? Yeah. Am I disappointed that the answer appears to be yes? Well, yeah. But I’m also happy that Jackson’s Middle Earth is one where more than two named female characters in the entire history of the setting have ridden into battle alongside men.
There are some folks out there incensed that Peter Jackson has added a character to The Hobbit, a sentiment I almost entirely lack sympathy for. In another case, I might understand, but unlike The Lord of the Rings, with its four women (three of whom appear in one scene each), The Hobbit has exactly zero named female characters. Jackson’s inclusion of material from the LotR appendixes have already brought Galadriel into a story in which she otherwise does not appear, and that’s about as far as he’s likely to get with canonical characters, since Liv Tyler hasn’t been hired on. So those of you who, like me, welcome the addition of Evangeline Lilly’s Tauriel, kickass commander of Mirkwood military forices, will be interested to see what her character looks like, as revealed by some action figures.
Can’t wait to see the Gingerhaze version.