User blog comment:Halfelvenprincess19/So what do you think of Tauriel from The hobbit?/@comment-7710660-20130402014816

"She is not in the books and this character has been invented by PJ and his team for the movie because they are barely any female characters in The Hobbit".

Just so... the character does not exist. Had she needed to exist, she would appear in published texts. Yet another PJ ism - similar to the disappearance of Glorfindel, and the arrival of a Helen Reddy look-alike Arwen.

I'm beggining to understand why C. Tolkien considers this film to be an abomination...