The final movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” is here for the holidays and while the creators of the popular franchise admit they’ve taken a few liberties, they say it’s all in a good cause. A new character, the female elf warrior Tauriel, who does not appear in Tolkien’s fantasy novel, turned up in the second Hobbit movie and is back in “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”.
