Gryphos
Auror
Mind you, I'm not the kind of social-justice blogger who would demand that a female warrior be shoehorned into every story, but if the storyteller (which in this case is Jackson, as Tolkien is dead) genuinely wants to include her, I don't have a problem with that.
THANK YOU. One of the basic things I feel the disparity in opinion comes from is that some people don't understand or don't agree with the fact that the Hobbit films are not Tolkien's story. In this case the artist is Peter Jackson, and he has every right to change Tolkien's story in order to adapt it. In this case one of those changes is to update it for modern audiences by adding a more diverse cast of characters, taking this opportunity by expanding the role of the Captain of the Guard and making them a woman.