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I agree wholeheartedly that Gimli could have used more screen time, and some decent lines! He also had too little interaction with Legolas. Does anyone remember him telling Legolas of the dwarves' hospitality upon their entrance into Moria? This was one of the few moments that audience members were given a hint that these two have a hard time understanding each other. It seems to me that they had more exchanges, but they probably ended up on the cutting room floor. Maybe the next two movies will allow their relationship more room to develop.<BR>As for Boromir (I've said this before, forgive me for repeating myself), let me tell you, when I first saw the movie I had, at that point, never touched a single Tolkien book. I was one of the ignorant and unconverted, but I did not get an impression of him as the token bad guy. I thought he was the character with the most depth, and both pitied and admired him. Maybe there are unconverted people out there telling each other, "Dude! What was up with that evil idiot Boromir?" But as for me, I kind of got the fact that he wasn't just some power-hungry menace, and I didn't know Tolkien, or any of you fine people at that time.