Climax: Tauriel confronts Thranduil to try to persuade him to help the dwarves in battle. The Dark Moment is at the End of Act 2 when the protagonist faces that great challenge. the hot dwarf with a thing for hot elven babes yeah son get in Kíli is one of the youngest dwarves in Thorin's company and is extremely eager to prove himself. She then performs extraordinary magic with the athelas plant, a plant used by elves to cure and heal, and heroically saves Kili in the nick of time from certain death. For example, Frodo falling victim to Shelob and being captured by orcs can be traced back to his decision to leave the last allies and refuge he had – Faramir – and continue the quest. 28 Choices by xxx-wow-xxx To save Kili, Tauriel has to make a choice (SPOILER Hobbit 3) (KilixTauriel, Kili/Tauriel) Hobbit, K, English, Hurt/Comfort & Romance, words: 1k+, favs: 65, follows: 13, 12/23/2014, Kíli, Tauriel. Viral Right Now: Revisiting the Little Feminists. Read imagine getting jealous of Tauriel from the story Kili Imagines by Wayward_Stark (JustAnotherWriter03) with 709 reads. For example, in The Hobbit – the book, I mean – Bilbo’s “Want” is to stay safely at home/get safely back home and continue to enjoy his comfortable upper-middle-class Bagginsy life. This is the culminating part of the scene, and the one that actually does seem to have some investment from the characters. But that definition is mine alone and I’ve not widely tested it, and if I really squint and write some mental fanfic, I can maybe see an argument that this is a big shift that she’s lost her roots and anger over this is the thing that drives her with anger at Thranduil for the rest of the story. Kili jumps on Bolg and a short duel takes place but Bolg easily defeats him and is going to stab him with the end of his mace and despite Tauriels attempts to stop him, the large orc succeeds in his task. aidanturner, thehobbit, kili. It doesn’t have any space to build and we don’t get a sense that these two are really at odds until suddenly Legolas is looking at Thranduil with loathing and telling him that he’ll fight to the death to defend Tauriel. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Kili and Tauriel - YouTube This is also complete in that all the scenes are there, and it does actually make sense with the interaction with Thranduil – all the points of contention I listed can be read as Tauriel resenting and fighting against Thranduil’s control and him trying to impose it, whether by telling her who she can love, sending Legolas to call her off her pursuit of the dwarves, or dismissing her military advice. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. She is overpowered and almost killed by Bolg, but Kili sacrificed himself to save her. They found the Goblins' cave in the Misty Mountains.W⦠Thranduil. Basically, if I’m defining something differently to how you’ve seen it elsewhere, you’re not crazy, I’m probably just misusing a term. It’s a question of balance. To save Kili, Tauriel has to make a choice (SPOILER Hobbit 3) (KilixTauriel, Kili/Tauriel) Hobbit - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,985 - Reviews: 28 - Favs: 62 - Follows: 13 - Published: 12/23/2014 - Kíli, Tauriel - Complete. Here be limited Tauriel hate. For example, Lord of the Rings doesn’t introduce the Ring until the end of Bilbo’s party, but the reason for the party is then revealed to have been to get rid of the Ring. (Highlights the years between The Hobbit and the Lord of the ⦠These are all major moments in the development of the story and the characters. So here we go again – a structure post using the Tauriel subplot as a case study. Jul 17, 2017 - amralime: “ Kili and Tauriel deleted scene. But as soon as Legolas shows back up on the shores of the Lake and Kili sails off to Erebor, the dynamic changes. Unfortunately, it falls down in a few small but important ways. His “Need” is to accept the Took side of his nature and bring that poetic love of adventure and mountains and so forth into harmony with the prosy love of peace and quiet and a cup of tea at 4pm exactly: “Tea is at four, but any of you are welcome at any time” demonstrates the completion of that arc very nicely. I just threw up in my mouth a bit, typing that last clause, but sure, fine, we’re going with what the movie wanted to do for now. In the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson at least had some female characters (Arwen, Eowen, and Galadriel) that he could take and expand the parts of. Sequence 8 includes the Climax and Resolution. I have some difficulty with Point of No Return in particular: both how to identify it and how important it is. Tauriel saves Kíli by killing a spider that was attacking him, but the Elves take the dwarves as prisoners for trespassing on their land. Written in two different times, the ⦠Tauriel isn’t torn between her home and wanderlust; she shows absolutely no interest in her home. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that they have miserable, depressing endings unless you count Thranduil saying that Tauriel’s love for Kili was real as some sort of big emotional triumph, which maybe they do, I don’t know, and that’s not my point right now. Only to surely be brought up later at a better time. She also refuses to let him come with her, as she recognizes that his people need him. Anyway, on with the order of business: watching me free-wheel around the place with all these literary and cinematic theories from people much more qualified than I am. She does pick back up in confronting Thranduil, but she doesn’t get to resolve that conflict because Legolas steps in to save her. Where Thranduil would see the rest of the world drown in fire and blood so long as his people were safe, Tauriel would gladly leap into battle to assist others. Now, I loved Tauriel when we first meet her in The Desolation of Smaug. Sequence 7 (Act 3): The protagonist makes a momentous decision that builds tension for Act 3 (this tension is related to, but different from the main tension). Your email address will not be published. Love always sells, and Tauriel would become the adaptation’s greatest asset. But OK, maybe we can spin it into some sort of continuing rejection of her feelings for him by her own people or something, and she chooses to continue loving him anyway or something. However, that is a solid Point of No Return – a change in circumstances to which the protagonist reacts with a definite decision that then drives the rest of the story. She only serves only as a wake-up call to Thranduil, to remind him what true love is. But The Hobbit is about a bunch of dudes travelling and encountering/fighting other dudes throughout their journey. 1 Background 1.1 Personality 1.2 Appearance 1.3 History 2 The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug 3 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Tauriel is a free-spirited elf who wishes to help others. She easily recognized the growing evils of the world and the need to save her world, as well as help others. This culminates in her leaving Mirkwood. Bilbo Baggins. Illustrated that Tauriel’s disdain for selfishness is not limited to, Inciting Incident: Thranduil attempts to control Tauriel’s love life, Point of No Return: Tauriel also breaks with Legolas by defying his orders, Resolution: Thranduil accepts Tauriel’s love for Kili and thus her independence and choice, Love for Kili – She’s trying to force him to help Kili while he continues to discount Kili’s life, Isolationism vs Interventionism – She’s trying to stop him returning to his isolationist ways at this key moment, Rebellion – She’s exerting her own independence, Inciting Incident: Legolas’ friend Tauriel falls in love at first sight with a dwarf, Lock-in: Legolas accompanies Tauriel in disobeying his father’s orders and leaving Mirkwood, Point of No Return: Tauriel is banished and Legolas decides to stay with her in exile, Climax: Legolas saves Tauriel from Thranduil, Resolution: Legolas decides to leave Mirkwood and turn his back on his father permanently. Also, credit where it’s due, I got a lot of inspiration from Lindsay Ellis’ videos Hercules: Disney’s Beautiful Hot Mess and How Three-Act Screenplays Work (and why it matters). He makes the decision to go to Gundabad while she just follows. The Legolas/Tauriel/Kili love story has been completely excised. First of all, I’ve already discussed how the plot seems to be about Tauriel and Kili and their doomed love story. After retaking Erebor, he's surprised and just how much his The climax of the plot in all these versions is Tauriel facing down against Thranduil when Thranduil attempts to leave the Battle of the Five Armies. ( Log Out / Apr 26, 2018 - Explore Rebecca Jordan's board "Tauriel", followed by 223 people on Pinterest. Tauriel arrives, seeing Kili out on a ledge she races up to help. Maybe this is why Banishment and the High Treason scene are ambiguous between the possible plots, and also an explanation for another big problem I’m going to address later, when I show how this lovely plot arc I’ve outlined falls down at the last minute. This sets the stage for Bilbo’s character development and internal conflict right away. Tauriel is thrown by Bolg while trying to reach Kili. Sequence 1 (Act 1): Background and the beginning of the plot, building to the Inciting Incident. It’s an Act transition, but more importantly it’s a way to ‘earn’ the triumph of the climax. ( Log Out / While, granted, she then decides to act on it, she comments herself that she’d be a pariah if she could have saved Peeta and didn’t. But he isnât helpless either, showing heroism when he bravely enters the orc battle to pull the lever and open the gates, thus allowing the hobbits to escape their prison. It’s actually still basically working fine. And we see from these quotes: that Tauriel did get a second outfit made in a hurry. However, it’s now flawed because the main conflict between protagonist and antagonist is not related to the core of the plot until the very end, and it actually makes no sense for it to be tied in then either because there’s no reason for Thranduil to know about Tauriel and Kili. This time, I conflated the Point of No Return and Dark Moment because there really aren’t any alternatives for either scene; the banishment scene is both the emotional low point (allegedly) and the point after which Tauriel can’t go back to her old life. It’s occasional lip service that she doesn’t follow through on, but it’s an attempt. They are sucked into the universe. So no, the love triangle isn’t representing conflicting desires in Tauriel, and I can’t really say that her romance with Kili is representing any deeper interest in the outside world either. Sure. The biggest problem with this as an overall plot is the fact that, well… you notice what’s absent from it? Something that shocked and angered some of the true Tolkein fans out there…. For Tauriel, it’s just Kili. Exactly what I thought, though I’m not as articulate nor my thoughts as organized as you. When Tauriel is being beaten by an orc, Kili ran to her side to save her. Tauriel is a fictional character from Peter Jackson's feature film adaptation of J.R.R. Kili is wounded badly and Tauriel saves him, after that he is trying to win her over for him self, even though his company of dwarfs is working against him. Tolkien, a scholar of Beowulf, counted the epic among his "most valued sources" for The Hobbit. For example, while Freytag’s Pyramid technically looks like this: Not saying one’s right and one’s wrong; I just happen to prefer visualising a later climax. Almost instantly, the gruesome devils drop Kili's brother Fili from a high ledge, killing him immediately. She walked in starlight in another world. Scenes insisting that the issue is really her interest in the outside world – specifically, Reporting to Thranduil and Riverbank – are entirely extraneous to this plot because they aren’t tied into it. See more ideas about tauriel, the hobbit, lotr. Keep reading the hobbit fanfiction fanfic bard the bowman fili the company of thorin oakenshield kili x reader bard the bowman x reader fili x reader tauriel x reader tauriel the hobbit the hobbit botfa bofur x reader bofur reader insert reader return her return her pt. Up until that point, she actually had quite a lot of agency and was the one driving the action in the plot – Legolas just tagged along with her when he was convenient. And unlike any of the other plotlines in these movies, she has one: her antagonism with Thranduil is clear, focussed, and a constant presence throughout the plotline. So we’re now left in a weird sort of limbo where the conflict between the protagonist and antagonist is a completely different conflict to the one driving the protagonist’s actions and therefore the plot. Tauriel saves Kili from getting skewered and they kill some more orcs while you crouch next to the girls with your weapon raised and poised to strike, and unfortunately Kili ends up writhing on the ground after killing one of the creatures to save the redhead. Tauriel gets the climax and accompanying power moment and closure pulled out from under her, and her resolution doesn’t have any particular action on her part; Legolas’ resolution contains a positive decision that ties off the arc while in Tauriel’s the positive action is on Thranduil’s side; he’s the one who’s changed and he’s the one who makes a statement he (it’s implied) wouldn’t have made at the beginning. Tauriel leaves Thranduil and accompanies Legolas and Bilbo to Ravenhill in order to warn Thorin, Dwalin, Fili, and Kili of an upcoming attack led by Bolg. So far when talking about this subplot, I’ve always focussed heavily on the characters. The trouble is… OK, let me demonstrate by using anchor scenes instead: If this were a stand-alone story it would have some pacing problems, but it’s functional as a rough mapping. 51.8K 2K 60. Sequence 2 (Act 1): The protagonist reacts to the Inciting Incident. As it is, though, we once again see that this is a plot of two halves – Tauriel is clearly the protagonist in Desolation of Smaug while Legolas is clearly the protagonist in Battle of the Five Armies, even if he is still orbiting Tauriel. Those are things that Tauriel actually doesn’t have which a protagonist needs to have unless the story is doing something calculated and deliberate. If they were in fact, able to make it out alive. Unlike the anchor scenes, she places the inciting incident at the end of Sequence 1. Tauriel: It is Mereth Nuin Giliath; The Feast of Starlight.All light is sacred to the Eldar, but the Wood Elves love best the light of the stars. Tauriel is a common Silvan elf, which is completely different from all the elves we’ve encountered before. It’s not complete; I can’t call the scenes in Laketown a Midpoint because there’s no turning point in the plot there (there might be if Legolas ever reacted to the fact that Tauriel has been manipulating him this whole time) and Gundabad isn’t a Dark Moment because it’s irrelevant to the plot, the characters, and everything else. The White Council plot, meanwhile, doesn’t end, it just stops, as previously pointed out. She also saves Legolas from an orcs’ arrow by shooting the enemy’s arrow in midair, and capturing the only live orc for the elves to question. Midpoint: Tauriel saves Kili from the Morgul poison; he confesses his love for her; Dark Moment: Kili leaves; Point of No Return: Tauriel is banished; Climax: Tauriel confronts Thranduil; Resolution: Thranduil accepts Tauriel’s love for Kili; If this were a stand-alone story it would have some pacing problems, but it’s functional as a rough mapping. The main tension ends. That’s perfectly legit, and it’s not actually contrary to the idea of introducing the conflict good and early, even if that doesn’t mean introducing a specific character. Well, in the romance version I identified Kili’s departure as the Dark Moment. We Will Live In Starlight by AnnabelleLily3 reviews. Elf!Kili. Even minutes later would have caused him to ⦠Whatever happens to Tauriel in that fictional world, I hope she finds her strength again, because she was one badass chick. If the movie was trying to make that the Midpoint of Legolas’ story, it failed because it doesn’t matter. These two characters form a bond for seemingly no reason other than it being in the script. She accompanies Legolas to scout Gundabad, most likely out of her desire to protect the world and kill all evil. Later Tauriel, having learned from an orc captive that the arrow wounding Kíli was poisoned, follows the Dwarves (accompanied by Legolas) in order to save him. Tauriel is also the one who saves Kili from the poison of the Morgul shaft, thus saving him when no one else could. She had considered going south to Lothlorien, in hope that Galadriel would take her in. I can’t think of an answer. With aid from his brother and companions, Kili soon stood at Tauriel's side, their gazes briefly meeting before the shouts of frightened villagers filled their ears. Language: English Words: 4,240 I mentioned way back at the start that Lindsay Ellis’ videos had introduced me to Want vs Need as a driving force of plot and character. This continues to keep the conflict alive. Thranduil and most of his people are racist against dwarves. At the end of this story, her character is devoid of strength, both physical and emotional. Tauriel was made up by Peter Jackson to break up the sausage fest that was The Hobbit. Tauriel is also the one who saves Kili from the poison of the Morgul shaft, thus saving him when no one else could. His comment that he doesn’t care about “one dead dwarf” could be read as pitched for her to hear, warning her of the official line on how we relate to dwarves, but it’s also a response to the orc. (Desolation of Smaug). Even her confrontation with Thranduil is ambiguous at best: you can claim that she wasn’t talking specifically about Kili when she stopped him, and he’s the one who makes it personal and about Kili.