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Badly-written, shallow character implanted in order to force an unnecessary love scene, create tension with the elves so that they can come to the rescue later in enlightened understanding of the dwarves, and add to the multiplying events that somehow lack in any real depth despite a number of said events going on. Additionally, I hate the idea of Peter Jackson's ridiculous, obsessive fangirling over the Tolkien universe enough to try to elaborate and take creative liberties in any capacity, as he did in this horrific instance.

So no. Boo.