Random Rant: Thranduil's Face

Random rants and random reflections from fellow Thinklings - the rules: No more than 150 words!

I read an article in Empire magazine recently in which Philippa Boyens answers some questions about the movies. One of these was about Thranduil's scarred face. This is what Boyens had to say:

'The conceit is that Thranduil has faced the great fire-breathing dragons and been scarred by them, physically and emotionally. He's used the magic of elves to conceal it. That also perhaps explains what's happened to Legolas' mum.'

Not another backstory! Just how much of The Hobbit are the writers going to write themselves? Why try to find ways to justify and explain things all the time?

- Corinne