Of the twelve Dwarves who accompanied Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit, nine were his relatives, making them part of the ...

Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) is an original character created for The Hobbit trilogy, appearing in the second and third movies. A Woodland Elf, she's the female version of Legolas, a warrior who ...

Evangeline Lilly plays Tauriel, an invention of Peter ... Bombur is a bit of a clown and Kili is a romantic. “The Hobbit dwarves are mildly ridiculous,” Drout says. “But at this point ...

But with Tauriel, I think he has gone too far. As a fan who re-reads The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings every other year, I will be the first to admit that the female characters in Middle Earth ...

Tauriel, an elf introduced in the second "Hobbit" film, was played by Lilly. Tauriel and dwarf Kili fall in love in the films, though her character did not exist in the book written by Tolkien.

But when the ill-advised romance with Tauriel got the green light, Jackson decided he needed a 'handsome dwarf', and Aidan Turner fit the bill. From the second movie onwards Kili became a wise ...

When The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hits theaters on Dec. 13, there will be a fresh face among the residents of Middle-earth: Tauriel, an elf warrior played by Evangeline Lilly of Lost fame.