"That's too bad," she says, tipping her head back to look up at the ceiling. "That you were discouraged from learnin' about their culture. I can't imagine how interesting it would all be, learnin' what Elves are like or havin' them learn about you. I think if I were from your world I'd wanna learn about everything, but I guess it's because I'm not from your world that I can say stuff like that."

She doesn't know anything about how things really were, how politics worked, how different cultures interacted. Just because they all seem so interesting to her doesn't mean it would have been easy for her to learn about everything she wanted to.

"She can teach you now, though," she says. "And maybe she'd tell me some stuff if I asked? Do you think she'd really mind?" Sometimes Beth isn't sure whether or not Tauriel likes her, but she doesn't ever want to burden Kili with that, mostly because she thinks it's just her own perception. Like Kili, Beth knows she has an exceptional amount of positive energy and that sometimes it can be a bit much for some people, especially for those who are naturally a little more reserved. It's a little funny to her sometimes, that she and Kili have both ended up with people like that.