[ SECRET POST #2737 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2737 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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I'm not happy with it either - I don't think there's enough of Legolas in LOTR to justify the somersaults The Hobbit trilogy is doing to explain how he ends up in the Fellowship and why he "really hates" dwarves. imo, Legolas is far more anti-dwarf in DOS, where he says he'd find it a "pleasure" to kill Thorin. His "hatred" of dwarves in LOTR is limited to one mildly snarky line and a couple of displeased looks.

The suggestion that Tauriel's end is going to be all about setting up Legolas' entry into LOTR is annoying. Not only is it unneeded, but if Tauriel dies to motivate Legolas, they're in the unfortunate position of having invented a female character to address a lack of women in the story and then killed her off to further a male character's character arc.

And, okay, let's say that the sole purpose of the love triangle was to explain why Legolas "really hates" dwarves. So where's Gimli's love triangle to explain why he hates elves in LOTR? After all, he was far more anti-elf than Legolas was anti-dwarf... And why aren't they explaining Thranduil's prejudices?

I do like Kili/Tauriel, though I think that the writing for it was pretty bad (that healing scene should have been rewritten and re-shot at the least) and I wish they hadn't dragged Legolas into it, suggesting that it would set up Legolas' entry into LOTR. I don't think it really undermines Legolas and Gimli's relationship in the films since it was given very little screentime and always downplayed to focus on their relationship with Aragorn. I've been wondering whether Kili/Tauriel is meant to stand in in some way for Gimli and Legolas' friendship because the latter was almost entirely ignored in the films.