tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483758426581390320.post8124186855123277634..comments2023-10-24T01:56:51.762-07:00Comments on What's New with K. Ru.: Kili and Tauriel in RetrospectKatelynrushehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06042103851303281993noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483758426581390320.post-67005936212823237462016-01-04T03:38:13.924-08:002016-01-04T03:38:13.924-08:00No problem, It was a great essay worthy of the eye...No problem, It was a great essay worthy of the eyes of people who have their own thoughts and opinions on the stories within the movies but also love nothing better than to find new and favourite ways in which to view them.Daniel Wroehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04807924869763051208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483758426581390320.post-40048727861470891992015-12-31T01:53:04.951-08:002015-12-31T01:53:04.951-08:00Thank you very much; I'm glad that you enjoy m...Thank you very much; I'm glad that you enjoy my essays so much. <br /><br />I do read some of the movie guides and companion books, but I try not to lean too heavily on them when interpreting the movies because I feel that the movies should be clear enough on their own. While I have heard that quote from John Howe before, I think I misunderstood it up until now. I took it to mean that Kili and Tauriel subconsciously saw each other as a way to rebel against their races' old ways but they mistook that intrigue for love. When Thranduil told Tauriel that she didn't really love Kili, she realized that he was right but still tried to save Kili out of altruism, then she and Thranduil both realized in the end that some love had formed after all.<br />I like your interpretation better, since it's more likely that Kili and Tauriel were just looking for someone friendly to talk to in Mirkwood and didn't share that close of a bond at first. And I am curious to read up more on Kili and Tauriel's relationship now that I've taken what I can from watching the movies. <br />Thanks again for the insight.Katelynrushehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06042103851303281993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483758426581390320.post-37087823440509433052015-12-18T03:14:17.819-08:002015-12-18T03:14:17.819-08:00Fantastic piece again; Carefully written and very ...Fantastic piece again; Carefully written and very insightful. I think a lot about this plot - where it works and where it takes work to make it work - and although, correct me if I'm wrong, I understand you said you don't really read the movie guides or companions, there are some words in there that help greatly to understand what the film-makers were trying to do and achieved.<br />One of the best comments, as he seems to always offer, is from John Howe; Where he describes his take on it. <br />John Howe: "The relationship between Tauriel and Kili is like one of those love stories where people think they are falling in love when, in fact, they are actually falling out of love with everything else around them, and the only sympathetic face is someone who they would never choose in any other circumstances...So, it's a kind of 'almost-love-story' with the potential to be tragically moving"<br />This is one of my favourite ways in which it can be portrayed. By these two characters falling out of love with their world (Kili with his Uncle Thorin, who is changing for the worse in every step closer he gets to the mountain - also making a harsh decision to leave him behind in Lake-Town, and Tauriel with Thranduil who shows less and less love as each day grows darker in her home. As well as losing her friendship with Legolas of which she is told by Thranduil to not pursue further, making Tauriel say, "There's no love in you"). <br />Overall, this relationship can be more complex if a person wishes it so and there are many small bits of information, not all in the films, which can help someone who is like Thranduil, Not showing much care to a theme of love of which they hide away from and which has an obviously overriding, conclusive factor of which the works of Tolkien heavily impose in his tales; Tragic Love and how tragic love can only really be seen in the finer details of the looks, feelings and thoughts, expressed through words by the people who are tragically in love. Daniel Wroehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04807924869763051208noreply@blogger.com