Talk:Gimli (Middle-earth)
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Perhaps it should be stressed that the "some" of "some say that he traveled [...]" is an internal and not an external one, i.e. it is not that different readers or scholars have different opinions on this (which they may well have, though, but then it's rather a question of belief than anything else), but that the canonical texts (notably, a quote from the Red Book of Westmarch) state it as an in-world rumour. I don't think JRRT ever dealt with this matter more decisiveley than that. --Jao 03:10, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- The no-one tosses a dwarf thing came from The Two Towers, didn't it? --Timo 00:27, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)
Gimli in the movie
In Peter Jackson's movie adaptation Gimli is mainly used as the comic relief. In the first movie, FoTR, when the party run through the mines of Moria and are chased by the Balrog there is a scene where they climb down a broken collumn of stairs which lead to a bridge over a very deep abyse. The collumn of stairs is cracking and Gimli hastitates to jump, when he realized they gonna throw him to the other side he yells "Nobody tosses a dwarf" and jumps to the other side, only to be caught in the beard by Legolas which saves his from falling. On TTT (The Two Towers) { :-) } there is a scene that Gimly and Aragorn sneak outside Helm's Deep gate in order to prevent the Orcs storm the gate, when Gimli sees he is unable to make the jump he asked from Aragorn. "Toss me" and explains he can't jump that far - and just before Aragorn tosses him Gimli asks "Don't tell the elf." MathKnight 15:57, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)