Tauriel
Sign in to saveTauriel is a fictional character from Peter Jackson's feature film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. The character does not appear in the original novel, but was created by Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh as an expansion of material adapted from the novel. She appears in the second and third films in that trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
Key facts
- Character.image
- EvangelineLillyAsTauriel.jpg
- Character.caption
- Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel
- Character.series
- The Hobbit
- Character.alias
- Daughter of the Forest(Tauriel translated into English)
- Character.first
- The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
- Character.last
- The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
- Character.creator
- Peter JacksonFran Walsh
- Character.portrayer
- Evangeline Lilly
- Character.species
- ElfSilvan
- Character.gender
- Female
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Tauriel is a fictional character from Peter Jackson's feature film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. The character does not appear in the original novel, but was created by Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh as an expansion of material adapted from the novel. She appears in the second and third films in that trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
She is a Woodland Elf whose name has been translated as "Daughter of the forest", and is the head of the Mirkwood Elven guard. She is played by Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly, who was nominated for several awards for her performance in The Desolation of Smaug, with some of the stunt work performed by Australian stuntwoman Ingrid Kleinig.