[ SECRET POST #2557 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2557 ⌋

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Comments

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I'm not certain whether Tolkien would recognize the parallels to the Silmarils that Walsh et. al. wrote into the movie Hobbit or roll his eyes at what might be the use of Thranduil as an allegory. There is certainly strong precedent in Tolkien's extended works for the elves to turtle-up and tell outsiders to go to hell. Bad blood between Elf and Dwarf goes all the way back to the War of the Silmarils.

The novel presents Thranduil as a bad guy, but The Hobbit is Bilbo's story and Bilbo is an unreliable narrator who has good reasons for playing favorites between Mirkwood and Rivendell.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't say that The Hobbit presents Thranduil entirely as a bad guy. Bilbo likes him enough that at the Battle of Five Armies, he decides that if he has to make a desperate last stand, he'd rather die in defense of the Elven-King.