13 Problems That Almost Ruin The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
2. Tauriel Is Mostly Pointless
The danger for The Hobbit in bringing in new characters, or hyper-extending some like Radagast and Legolas and the White Council is that theres nothing really for most of them to do when the film skips back to the original text. In that context, Radagast has precious little speaking time (if any at all), the majority of the company of dwarves have absolutely nothing to do and Tauriel is relegated mostly to a passenger, witnessing important events through perpetually wet eyes. Shes mostly robbed of her power, though she adds impact to Kilis inevitable death and you get the feeling that Jackson didnt really know what to do with her for the end. In the end, the director didnt really do anything: she got something of a fight sequence (but was upstaged by Legolas), got to tell Thranduil off and became the emotional heart of things for a while, but she was passive in most respects. And then theres the question of what happens to her in the run up to Lord Of The Rings since she was spared death.
