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@ericawordsmith @wordsmith – Yeah, I’m not too fond of Kili and Tauriel. I… don’t really like them. Obviously I cried when he died and wished he hadn’t, but there was just never that ‘thing’ about them that made me like their romance. Plus, I’m a big ‘by the book’ person, which is why I don’t like the Hobbits as much as Lord of the Rings, and Tauriel is not even mentioned in the book, so not a big fan of that.

And I will have to say that yes, most of the boys in my acquaintance, especially one or two in particular, would probably be a little more compassionate than ‘shoulda brought a coat’. There are some total jerks out there but I think most boys, even if they weren’t taught it, have somewhat of a natural sense of chivalry.

@cassandraia – No perfect characters. Absolutely! Falling in love, as a friend who got married told me is (and I can’t quote perfectly) ‘wonderful, scary, hard, and your best dream come true’. Or something along that line.

Yeah, of course start with friendship. Despite what happened with my great grandparents and despite Charlotte Lucas’s insisting in Pride and Prejudice that we have enough time to get to know them after we’re married, you should still start on friendship. And attraction, of course, isn’t evil, it’s there because we’re technically ‘attracted’ in a way to everyone we make friends with. Obviously something’s got to tell you that you like somebody from the start. “Oh, she seems fun, I think I’d like to get to know her.” “He seem like a very nice guy, I think I’d like to get to know her.”