![]() ![]() When Peter Jackson began work on a big screen version of The Hobbit, one of the key pieces to his whole plan was showing cinematically that the events in the second trilogy all happen within the same continuity as the Lord of the Rings films he made back in the early ‘00s. This is not a nice dude, and he has proven that time and time again throughout the course of these movies. ![]() In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug we also see him lock up Bilbo and the dwarfs, only offer to help them for a hefty price of white jewels, and then try to shut his kingdom off from the world when he learns that Sauron has returned. After all, he and his army of wood-elves literally stood on a hill outside Erebor and did nothing while Smaug decimated the homeland of the dwarfs. We’ve already touched on how Thranduil’s dickish-ness comes through his negative views on romance that cross class lines, but the truth is that he was being an asshole many, many years before that. We’ve been introduced to many good and friendly elf characters in Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth movies – including Legolas, Tauriel, Galadriel, Elrond and Arwen – but the Elvenking Thranduil is proof that even the race of sprightly, forest dwelling archers isn’t without its individual assholes. The ideas of elves and dwarfs being in love isn’t something that’s exactly celebrated, but there’s also the added tension that comes from Legolas’ romantic interest in Tauriel, even though his father, Thranduil, has explained that she is too low for him. Tolkien’s novel) and she winds up developing a connection with the pretty boy dwarf Kili – first helping him during a spider attack and then working to save his life after he is shot in the leg by a cursed arrow. In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, we are first introduced to the wood elf Tauriel ( a character not originally featured in J.R.R. Basically it’s a bit of Romeo and Juliet. A light was shined on this conflict in The Lord of the Rings movies through the begrudging friendship between Gimli and Legolas, but it’s represented in a different way in The Hobbit films. There are many mystical races in the world of Middle-earth that aren’t too fond of other mystical races, but surely one of the most explored is the bad blood between dwarfs and elves. ![]()
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