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Something we didn’t really tell the audience, but I knew in my own heart and mind, was that in her back story, Tauriel was orphaned when she was a young, young elf. She’s still a young elf — she’s only 600 — but at some point in her life, she was orphaned, and her parents were killed at the hands of an orc, or orcs (I’m not sure how many). And that influenced a lot of the decisions that I made for the character at the beginning of the film, and her attitude, her demeanor, her presence, her coldness, the anger that sort of seethed out of her was this need for revenge, this need for justice, this need to make things right in a world that had wronged her. And then as Kili enters her world, he opens up her heart and mind and her soul to the notion of innocence again. She sees innocence and purity in him, and she sees a spark of life that she hasn’t known since before her parents were killed, and it reminds her of the young elf that she maybe threw aside in her pain. In a weird way, it’s a coming-of-age story, and yet when we come of age, if we do it with grace, then I think in a way we return to some of the innocence that we held in childhood. In our maturing and our wisdom, we realize the infinite wisdom that children have in their idealism and in their passions. So I think it’s a beautiful arc for the character, and I was very excited to play it.

Evangelline Lilly about Tauriel’s romance with Kili

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/evangeline-lilly-on-the-hobbit-it-changed-my-mind-about-acting/#/0

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"It’s a massive head of hair, and it’s almost shocking red. It’s sort of auburn red, but it’s a red wig. And so, my hair is kind of big and it’s very noticeable. And I have what we joke around with on set, we call it my ‘IHS’, which is my Iconic Hair Shape, and it’s this big, beautiful, lustrous curl that runs down my back. So I could get away with having really big ears, because there was nothing that was going to distract you from the hair. And then otherwise, because I’m a warrior, because I’m not a princess, as with most– Well, both of the female Elves we’ve met in Middle Earth up to now, I don’t wear all of the glorious gowns that they wear. I don’t have all the layers and the chiffon and the silks– I’m in very practical, military clothing. I’m the head of the Elven Guard, so I spend most of my time in the movie slaughtering Orcs and Goblins, which is great fun. Although, hair down to your knees can get a bit troublesome when you’re flying around killing Orcs and Goblins. So yeah, I wear the military garb of the Woodland Elves."

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Peter Jackson explains to Aidan and Evangeline where they have to look.

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What do you think especially girls can learn from a character like Tauriel?

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"Nine hours of cinema entertainment without one female character is essentially, subconsciously, telling the female audience: ‘You are irrelevant. You’re not important to storytelling. You don’t have a place in heroic moments […].’ You know, it has a very damaging effect on the female psyche and we deal with that all the time in media. Women are always overlooked and there are all of these very, very powerful statistics around the fact that if there’s a woman in a film, she will only speak to men or about men, if she’s talking to another woman. There’s all these strange things that have become mainstays of our storytelling only because we’re still entrenched in the old patriarchy we were raised in and have come from. I mean Tolkien was writing this book in the 1930s, it’s understandable that he didn’t include women. It’s not understandable today to exclude women from a story you’re telling and I think I’m willing to take the heat if that means little girls are going to come away thinking they can have an impact and that they’re an important person."

— Evangeline Lilly on the necessity of Tauriel in The Hobbit (x)

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