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If Aragorn had had a choice in the matter, he would have sent three companions to Mordor with Frodo: himself, Sam, and Gimli.

Rereading LotR for the first time in a couple of years and rediscovering yet again how poorly Gimli was treated by the films. His first ever line in the book is “faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens”. He is continually shown to be loyal, strong, eloquent, and kind. I wish we’d had more of that in the films.

(via determamfidd)

Tags: gimli lotr YO YO MY BUDDY MY PAL I HEARD YOU WANTED TO TALK ABOUT HOW GIMLI GLOINUL IS THE BEST yeah okay look short version i have a lot of glitches with the movies M A N Y like a hundred and fifty of them are about FUCKING FARAMIR (MY BOY HAS BEEN SO ABUSED BY PETER JACKSON) (I WILL NEVER BE DONE BEATING PETER JACKSON WITH THE 'FUCK YOU' STICK ON BEHALF OF FARAMIR) but the loss of that first line the line that DEFINES GIMLI'S CHARACTER that defines the WHOLE RACE OF THE DWARVES (because what are they if not faithful to the bitter end) (to the death) (to the stone) (faithful to their deals struck with those who betray them) (too faithful to be corrupted by the rings given by sauron) (faithful to the pits of kazhad dum and to the heights of erebor) (and to all the losses they found there) (the dwarves are a tragedy in a way that even the elves with all their starlight and sadness cannot quite match) and gimli is the dwarf to define all others by clear-eyed and loyal and mithril-tongued and he does his people so proud with that first line because dwarves do not falter and they do not shake and they do not say farewell at the darkened path I AM ALWAYS GOING TO BE ANGRY ABOUT THE LOSS OF THAT LINE ALWAYS