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marillaraina
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Jan 23 2015, 3:34am

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We were always going to get a romance injected into the story, probably to tick the initial casting call (not just the Reddit guy's hearsay) included "Itaril" - an Elf of Mirkwood who was in love with an Elf lord (apparently of Rivendell from the male role description!) This was when GdT was still at the helm.

http://www.movies.spoilertv.com/...it-casting-call.html
I think I'm right in saying that Tauriel only emerged after PJ took over. PB has admitted that they always wanted to expand on the Gimli-Galadriel relationship so that was the basis for the Tauriel/Kili storyline. We also know that Aiden Turner initially auditioned as an Elf so I guess he was always slated for the romantic "lead."

https://www.facebook.com/...92897&permPage=1

It doesn't really mean anything. What they use for audition material really isn't necessarily what they are slated to play esp if the script is still in very rough form. Sometimes for initial auditions they only use a relatively few characters. I mean way back when Lost was being cast, at least half the male actors who were cast auditioned by reading for Sawyer and then were slated into other parts.

Per one of the AUJ books, Aidan actually read for quite a few parts because they liked him so much, the elf was just the first audition, then they tried a few others on him before they decided on Kili.

(This post was edited by marillaraina on Jan 23 2015, 3:49am)

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