I can't sleep at the moment, and I want to talk more about The Hobbit, so what I'm going to do now is talk about The Hobbit and not sleep, which will work out nicely because I can't sleep and I want to talk about The Hobbit.
I tried sleeping, and I can't, so a little earlier (or later last night) I was browsing through Hobbitty things on Pinterest, and I've come across a lot of people saying they don't like the whole thing going on between Kili and Tauriel.
I have a couple of counterpoints against said people. One of them I think I've already said, but I'm going to say it again, so here it is:
I believe Tauriel feels a bit maternal towards Kili, and Kili is just a bit like a little kid with a crush on a pretty actress, so I don't think they're actually "in love." Besides that, when Kili was talking to Tauriel right after he didn't die, I think he talked like that because (a) he was high on athelas and (b) he was a little delirious. I don't think you can take a person too seriously when he's delirious and high on athelas.
And even if it was serious, I don't think that's such a bad thing. I think I've said before, everybody has his own personal dragon to slay and for some people dragons exist in the form of a troubled love-life. For people who have had bad relationships, it's probably nice to see a good love story, which is why I don't like it when people make fun of Twilight all the time (not that I haven't been guilty of that). It's like Chesterton's saying that "fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." One reason I like Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit is because he portrays Thorin's love of gold as a mental illness, which (spoiler alert) Thorin will eventually overcome. It's a nice thing for people with mental illnesses to see.
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