First Official Look at Evangeline Lilly’s Tauriel in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

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Susana Polo

Published: Jun 5, 2013 12:11 pm

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It’s been a long time coming, with grainy pictures of action figures and gifs of unreleased footage pretty much the only looks at Tauriel, the original female character Peter Jackson and Co. have added to the very, very male cast of The Hobbit. Am I disappointed that Entertainment Weekly focuses half their article on grilling Evangeline Lilly about whether her character has a romantic subplot? Yeah. Am I disappointed that the answer appears to be yes? Well, yeah. But I’m also happy that Jackson’s Middle Earth is one where more than two named female characters in the entire history of the setting have ridden into battle alongside men. Also, just look at this .gif.

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.