"You will not pass. Not this time," said Tauriel blocking the entrance to leave the battle of the five armies.
"Get out of my way!" said Thranduil her determined father and King.
"Dwarfs will be slaughted," Tauriel stated.
"Yes they will die," Thranduil stared her down, "They will die today, tomorrow, a hundred years from now. What does it matter? They are mortal beings."
Tauriel quickly drew her bow and arrow to the King's surprise. "You think your life is worth more than theirs! When there is no love in it! There is no love in you!"
"And what do you know of love?" mocked Thranduil, "What you feel for the dwarf is not real. It is not love."
"I know that I have never learned love from you," She said angrily, "You have no love. You only show that you despise me every time you look at me. You banish me from my home. Why should I show you mercy?" Tauriel pulled back on her arrow even more.
Thranduil glanced down for a moment in recollection. His own daughter had fallen in love with a disgusting dwarf and now she speaks ill of him, her father, her King. In a swift motion of anger with his sword he shatters her bow and arrow. Tauriel's weapon falls from her palms as she falls hard against the cold ground. Thranduil pushes the tip of his sword to his daughter's throat.
"Why should I show you mercy!? You betray my orders and make a mockery of my Kingdom by having my own kin fall in love with a disgusting dwarf!" Thranduil says angrily as he holds is sword to her throat, "If you are in love then I hope that you are willing to die for it as I should execute you now."
To his surprise Tauriel grabs the tip of sword and pushes it harder into her throat, "Then kill me, ada. Since my existence has only brought you misery and pain then kill me. Put yourself out of your misery," She says as she stares at him with tears in her eyes.
Thranduil's eyes open in bewilderment. Before he has a chance to react Legolas pushes his sword away. "If you kill her you must kill me first," Legolas says sternly to his father. Thranduil retreats and looks down. Thranduil did not know that his daughter felt her existence tortured him; all though it did for different reasons than she stated.
"If this is love take it from me. I do not want it," Tauriel cried over the dead dwarf, Kili.
Thranduil felt heartbroken for his daughter. Not long ago for an elf's life, hundreds of years ago, he was in the same position. Losing his love to a battle and he could not protect her, the mother of his children.
"It hurts because it was real," Thranduil says with compassion for his daughter. He watched her as she softly kissed the dwarf one last time and placed a stone in his hand. "Tauriel," he said as he kneeled on the cold ground next to her, "You are right. Your presence does give me great pain," he explained as he empathetically placed his hand against her cheek, "But not because it reminds me of your mother's demise. It is because your image reminds me of her life."
Tauriel turned her face towards his and he stroked her face gently indicating how much she resembled her mother. The same eyes, nose, mouth. He did not realize his daughter picked up on how much sadness her image gave him, but for a different reason. She resembled her mother so much that it pained him to look at her.
Tauriel finally felt she was given the answer to what she suspected all along. She lunged into her father's arms and cried. It was one of the few times she ever was embraced by her father and Thranduil was at first surprised by the act of love, but he then gave into wrapping his arms tightly around his daughter as she wept.