- THE HOBBIT: DESOLATION OF SMAUG
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, is the
second part of The Hobbit’s tale. In a recent online Q&A Jackson revealed
images of Evangeline Lilly as the Elf Tauriel, a new character.
This character was created just for the movie by Jackson and
his co-writers Guillermo del Toro, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens and is not
based on any of J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. We don’t know much about the
character expect for the fact that Tauriel is related to Legolas.
Jackson was quoted as saying:
“We’re quite excited about the storyline we have created for
Tauriel. As you can see, she’s not an Elf Guard to be messed with.”
In a previous interview with Lilly she discussed the
character saying,
“Yeah! I am very concerned to this day that people will
watch the film and I’ll be the black mark on the film. I know how adamant the
purists are and I’m one of them! That said, upon reading The Hobbit again, as
an adult, I can see why additional characters were needed to round out the
story as an adaptation – especially female characters! The Hobbit didn’t
include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for
children, really. What Peter, Fran (Walsh) and Philippa (Boyens) have done is
all in perfect keeping with Tolkien’s world, while adding a third dimension to
an otherwise very two-dimensional story.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens up in theaters on
December 13th, 2013.
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