Evangeline Lilly (above) is playing a Woodland Elf named Tauriel in The Hobbit, a character created by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens for these two Hobbit movies. I was hoping, when ...

Quite possibly one of Peter Jackson's most awkward decisions in filmmaking, and maybe even Philippa Boyens as some blame in this, was developing a romantic relationship between Kili and Tauriel. Let ...

Alice is a Lord of the Rings enthusiast who grew up with Tolkien's tales. She loves all kinds of writing, from articles to stories to her debut novel, which she is seeking literary representation for.

Alice is a Lord of the Rings enthusiast who grew up with Tolkien's tales. She loves all kinds of writing, from articles to stories to her debut novel, which she is seeking literary representation for.

At the climax of the last of the many sprawling, outrageous action set pieces in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — a few with some textual basis in Tolkien, many without — comes a visual conceit ...

Just as important as the improvement on existing characters, is the creation of original ones. The female Elf Tauriel has been a subject of debate amongst Tolkien fans, as she is the first entirely ...

The new Hobbit film opens with the climactic attack of Smaug upon the city of Laketown that its predecessor denied audiences. This sequence, while far from perfect, is exciting and dynamic. Jackson ...

If anyone’s going to conjure up a new character out of whole cloth to fit seamlessly into the world created by author J.R.R. Tolkien, it would be filmmaker Peter Jackson. Jackson, the man behind the ...

Fans of beloved books like ‘The Hobbit’ will always have reservations when movie directors make changes from the book to the film. However there was an increased amount of trepidation when completely ...

One of the most controversial decisions “The Hobbit” filmmakers made was the addition of Silvan elf warrior Tauriel, an entirely new character not present in J.R.R. Tolkien’s story. And perhaps nobody ...

SITTINGdown with actor Aidan Turner is a slightly uncanny experience. I’ve come to our interview from a screening of the final instalment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, The Battle of the Five ...