_{This is my take on Tauriels reaction void of the movie.} 

 _"Tragic.“ 

_{Her response was flippant at best. Though he had been her friend, his kin and their reckless hope of taking a mountain enslaved by a dragon who coveted gold and was the harbinger of death caused her to have grown a sudden dislike for him- the kind of taste in your mouth you develop when you are in the room with the person who betrayed you worse than any. Many of her kin were slaughtered in the battle of five armies, ill prepared and murdered at what cost? To reclaim a home? She could spit upon the ground and utter a curse, They had stripped many of homes, broken families with sons, daughters, mothers and fathers who would never return home. No. Do not dare disrespect the dead with this pathetic notion. Kili’s life was lost to a greed, not to hiraeth.} 

_{Now the darkness grew, spreading like fire, invading her woods and securing its grasp upon the wood elves lives because of this battle.} 

_{"A dwarf was meant to die sooner or later."}