Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, and Eomer chillin’ on the slopes of Rohan.
Tag: gimli
There are lots of passages in LOTR that I love, but my uncontested favorite is this sentence by Galadriel:
‘Dark are the waters of Khaled-zaram and cold are the springs of Kibil-Nala and fair were the many-pillared halls of Khazad-dum in elder days before the fall of mighty kings beneath the stone.’
This is the moment Gimli gets her, or at least he gets that she gets him. In this one sentence,
- She acknowledges that Gandalf (and Gimli) was not wrong to pass through Moria.
- She shows empathy for Gimli’s wish to see Moria again, even if it is ruined or unsafe.
- She deliberately uses the Dwarven names of places – endonyms instead of exonyms, Khazad-Dum instead of Moria, Dwarrowdelf instead of Black Pit.
- She doesn’t only show respect and understanding, she shows knowledge – in addition to knowing dwarven names, she seems to know dwarven culture, since the descriptions she uses are very similar to the ones in Gimli’s song.
- Knowing Galadriel’s past, it seems like her understanding of Gimli’s grief for Khazad-Dum stems from her experiences with losing… well, she lost a lot of people and places over the eras. She stood witness to the losses of various paradises, she gets it. But the fall of Gondolin is the most obvious parallel, or maybe Doriath, and the knowledge that Lothlórien can only be a faint echo of its glories.
- Knowing Galadriel’s future, it seems like her grief for losing Middle-Earth forever also shines through the sentence. The world is changing and beautiful things fade or die or must be left behind, and she knows this probably best of everyone on Middle-Earth.
- And in this one utterance of knowledge and compassion, where she acknowledges the beauty of dwarven lands and the grief of their loss, she uses one-syllable adjectives, which, as @thearrogantemu pointed out, are Tolkien’s favorite mode of signaling beauty, age and gravitas. Dark. Cold. Fair.
the respect and understanding she shows for the lost glory and lost beauty of the Dwarvish kingdoms #I think for Gimli that’s like the moment where you realize someone has read the same book and loves it like you do #not just a willingness to be generous #but the mutual recognition of shared values #and especially coming from someone whose people have historically been dismissive or antagonistic (thearrogantemu)
Since Legolas & Gimli’s friendship was based on competition, I assume that after the war they just found successively weirder things to keep betting on.
It’s good to have beardless friends. When you go out, people will assume you are their leader.
Gimli (via incorrect-middleearth-quotes)
Can you imagine the hilarity of Legolas and Gimli somehow switched bodies. All the shenanigans and fuss of getting used to a body that is so wildly different omg
OH BUT BEST BODYSWAP OR BEST BODYSWAP Y/Y HOLY SHIT
LEGOLAS DEALING WITH CURLY HAIR
“You brushed it, didn’t you.”
Sheepish nod in answer, surrounded by clouds of fluff.
GIMLI FORGETTING TO DUCK
“Owwww.”
“Mellon nin?
“Why is your head so damnably soft? Owwww.”
EYESIGHT SHENANIGANS
“You can’t see anything!”
"Now I know why elves sleep with their eyes open – it’s because they can’t bloody stop lookin’ at everything, even for a second! Ugh, I’m gettin’ a headache.”
BEARD
“But how do you eat without wearing your meal?”
“Ah, a bit o’ food gets in the moustache now and then, nothing to be alarmed over. Brush it out.”
*Genteel, horrified silence*
WEAPONS
“I can’t aim this thing – ach, give me my axe, I don’t care if it’s too short for me now.”
thud.
“…I don’t think it’s meant to land in the wall.”
”Arrgh.”
SNOWWWW
”Oh, I’m a wee shiny elf, I’m off to find the sun, look at me prancin’ about like the great show-off that I am…”
“Gimli, could you please dig me out?”
Aragorn: I’m here to fight Sauron and undo the mistakes of my ancestor
Gimli: I’m here to represent the Dwarves in this adventure
Legolas: My dad kicked me out of the house and I didn’t have anything else to do so here I am.
How The Lord of The Rings should have ended.
Beard cuddles feat. Gimli and Legolas
nother pic for tolkienradical .. i rly like this one (ft boromir, gimli, arwen, and sam)
The thing i love/hate about the scene where Gimli mourns at Balin’s tomb is that when you first watch LOTR you watching it from the rest of the Fellowship’s view. You feel sorry for Gimli in that sort of “wow, that really sucks” kind of way, while at the same time worrying about the evil lying so close in the darkness.
But then after watching The Hobbit trilogy, you see this scene again and now you’re watching it from Gimli’s point of view. Now you’ve spent time with Balin and Ori, like Gimli would have done, so when you see the tomb you remember Balin’s exasperated smile, and when you see the skeleton you see timid Ori knitting away at something.
You watch it knowing what Gimli is actually going through, and why he needs time to stop in the middle of such danger to mourn the loss of those he loved.
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