Why doesn t Legolas marry Tauriel?

He Abandoned Romance For Friendship
Loving Tauriel was a particularly harrowing event for Legolas. So much so, in fact, that he never shows any interest in romance ever again. He never even talks about romance in The Lord of The Rings trilogy.

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Did Tauriel ever love Legolas?

The original character Tauriel finds herself in a love triangle with both the Elf prince Legolas and the Dwarf Kili pining for her affection. She remains uninterested in Legolas, but begins to feel a bond to Kili as the two speak in the dungeons of Mirkwood.

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Why didn t Thranduil love Tauriel?

Although very little is known about the identity of Legolas' mother, she is referenced a few times in The Hobbit films, and a big part of the source of contention between Taurial and Thranduil is that she thinks him cold and unfeeling, and he thinks her naive and foolhardy.

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Who was Legolas supposed to marry?

Legolas does not marry or have any children, based on the appendix of The Lord of the Rings. Regardless of who his mother was, Legolas is the last of his line. When he sails into the West at the beginning of the Fourth Age, he leaves no family members behind.

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Why did Legolas leave Tauriel?

Legolas leaves the Mirkwood elves when he realizes that Tauriel will never love him back the way that he loves her (they don't directly address it, but in multiple points in the second and third movie you can see Legolas looking jealously at Kili).

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Who does Legolas fall in love with?

It is later mentioned that Tauriel is a talented warrior and was therefore made leader of the Mirkwood border guards. Legolas, the son of Mirkwood's Elven king Thranduil, is indicated to be attracted to her, but as she is a lowly Silvan Elf, she does not believe herself worthy of him.

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Was Legolas in love with someone?

Tauriel truly threw a wrench in Legolas' life when he fell in love with her. She was brave, fierce, and a protective leader of the guard. He was meant to be the dutiful son of King Thranduil, but in loving her, he became a stubborn, masterful archer instead. He loved exploration and adventure over his duties.

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What is Legolas syndrome?

The actor is suffering from Legolas Syndrome — where you accidentally get cast into a role that suits you far more than your real-life looks, leaving you with a tricky predicament after the wrap party.

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Who did Gimli marry?

After the downfall of Sauron, Gimli travels with many of his kinsfolk to the Glittering Caves of Aglarond. He becomes the Lord of the Glittering Caves, and prospers there for many years, doing great works for the Kings of Gondor and Rohan. He never takes a wife and has no children.

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Did Tauriel really love Kili?

It is believed that after Kili dies, Tauriel becomes a lone rider and never loves again, she was so broken by the experience of losing him. Their love was real, and it was as strong as any other Middle Earth romance story.

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What happens to Tauriel after Kili dies?

At the end of The Hobbit movies, Tauriel chose to stay in Middle-Earth and continue her work as a guard for the Elvenking. She had grown close to Kili during their journey together and wanted to remain with him despite his mortality.

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Did Tauriel give up her immortality?

Tauriel, the immortal elf who loved a mortal dwarf, and Arwen, the immortal elf who loved a mortal man. The first watched her love die and will have to live forever with that pain, while the second gave up her immortality and died with her love.

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Who was the elf that fell in love with Kili?

Tauriel admits her love for Kili in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.

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Do hobbit elves only love once?

They marry only once for it was ruled by Manwë that, "'since the Elves are by nature permanent in life within Arda, so also is their unmarred marriage.

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Why is Tauriel not in lotr?

She was created for the Hobbit films because the filmmakers thought the story should have more female characters. Since Tauriel is an invention of the filmmakers, she does not appear in any of J.R.R. Tolkien's books, which he wrote decades before the films were made.

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Did Legolas have a crush on Aragorn?

“You gave me a very special bow, and I look after it.” In related news, sources reveal that I “had such a crush” on Aragorn, son of Arathorn, called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dúnadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor.

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Why does Legolas never talk to Frodo?

Frodo is portrayed as a reserved and introspective character, while Legolas is more outgoing and extroverted. It's possible that they simply don't have much in common and don't feel the need to engage in conversation with each other. The hobbit didn't talk much with Gimli or Boromir either.

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Why is Legolas so powerful?

His prowess with a bow was unmatched among the Fellowship and, as J.R.R. Tolkien stated himself, Legolas was “endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies,” as well as an inability to feel terrible hurts, which made it easy for him to travel long distances over rough terrain in only light shoes.

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Why did they add Tauriel?

With Tauriel, we see a character more curious about the outside world than Legolas or Thranduil, someone with a strong sense of empathy to the other free peoples. The point of her character is that unlike Thranduil, she is an idealist and acts as Legolas' moral compass.

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What is Legolas relationship with Tauriel?

Tauriel was an Elf of the Woodland Realm and the head of the Silvan Guard. Thranduil adopted her when her parents were slaughtered by Orcs and Legolas is like a brother to her.

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Was there a love triangle in The Hobbit?

In The Desolation of Smaug, the second in Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, the wood-elf Tauriel is involved in an unresolved love triangle between the elf Legolas and the dwarf Kili. This is not a feature of Tolkien's book, first published in 1937.

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Was Kili part elf?

Are Fili and Kili half-elves? Fili and Kili are not half-elf. They are the maternal nephews of Thorin Oakenshield, the dwarf, and are themselves dwarves of the line of Durin, the Longbeards.

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Why did Kili love Tauriel?

Kili took an interest on Tauriel and he showed her his emotions, and he shared his world to her, that's some of the reasons for Tauriel to fall for him. He appreciated her for she is and he shared his world to her without their races' prejudice.

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Do Kili and Tauriel have babies?

No, because that atrocity is fanfiction. Tauriel does not exist in Tolkien's books. Originally Answered: After the Hobbit, did Tauriel have a baby? She only exists in the movies - as a character she never existed in the books.

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