[ Not many Elves could say that they had walked with one like Lucrezia. Tauriel has never met anyone like her. Good and cheerful humour seems to come to her with an enviable ease. ]

Elves favour natural places. In Mirkwood, my home, we live among the trees. The gardens bring much comfort to me in this world of metal and glass. I would not like it at all, if not for this place.

Do you not find it comforting, Lady Lucrezia, to breathe this air and hear the sounds of nature?