Otaku-sempai
Elvenhome
Mar 15 2015, 6:22pm
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The relationship always felt contrived to me...
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This isn't the relationship I saw on screen. Maybe if they left out the "why does it hurt" scene, it might have translated better. I can accept the "almost-love-story" or an attraction based on curiosity or fondness. But I don't like the implied "it was real" love - they had two conversations. Tauriel had no reason to be THAT upset over it.
My problem with the dialogue between Tauriel and Thranduil after Kili's death is that I never fully bought into the relationship in the first place, so the Elvenking's line didn't seem authentic to me. That and it really was a terribly overwrought exchange.
However, I don't want to devalue Tauriel's feelings. Of course they were real in one sense, but there was a lot more to it than there appeared to be on the surface. She had an honest liking and affection for the Dwarf-prince and healing him forged a further bond, but her feelings toward Legolas and her frustrations over the limitaitons set by her ruler were all mixed up in her head as well.
"At the end of the journey, all men think that their youth was Arcadia..." - Phantom F. Harlock
(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on Mar 15 2015, 6:25pm)
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