What I mean: Legolas built an ENTIRE BOAT to bring to Valinor so Gimli could go with him cause he couldn’t bear to spend ETERNITY without him and wanted to ALWAYS be with him and if that’s not true love I honestly don’t know what is
this evidenced by how many of the Rohirrim observed his attempt to crawl into Gimli’s lap and curl up there, burying his face and hands in Gimli’s hair and murmuring happily in Sindarin
(they were also impressed with how red a dwarf’s face could go, even as he curled his hand protectively around the back of Legolas’ neck. His gaze dared even one of them to comment on how Legolas’ legs hung, akimbo, over Gimli’s lap, and so none of them dared. The axe was within reach, and glinted with sharp promise of retribution.)
the best lord of the rings thing ive seen is the headcanon that gimli is like Prince Tier of beauty for dwarves and is absolutely stunning and legolas is like, for an elf, absolute butt ugly like relatively and everyones always like gimli how could you marry such a shit tier ugly ass elf and gimli is like ach.. nae…i love him