I pickup The Hobbit and TLoR every couple of years to this day. What pee'd me off most about the Hobbit movies was Tauriel was a redhead. The only known redheaded elves were the sons of Feanor. She would have been an elve of incredible power. Somewhere between Galadriel and Elrond. Who didn't know that ?
The hHobbit movies were not the directors best work.