[Imladris]

Well, in LotR (the books), both Legolas and Gimli are all sort of there, in my opinion. They fight and the Fellowship probably wouldn't have succeeded without them, but they don't do anything really pivotal in the books (I consider them like background: without the background the picture isn't there, isn't complete). Gimli, if I recall, was also the comic relief in the books as well (for instance, that whole scene about blindfolding the dwarf was hilarious, his little speech with Eomer, the head counting game at Helm's Deep, when he met Merry and Pippin at Orthanc and many others). <P>Seriously, can you imagine a lumbering dwarf riding behind a slim elf upon a horse? What PJ did, in my opinion, was take the dwarven race and conjecture what would happen to a dwarf if he was put in certain circumstances.<P>Forgive me for mentioning Legolas upon a Gimli topic, but whenever I think of Legolas I think of Gimli and vice versa. Granted, Gimli does look a bit rough, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that he was manlier than Legolas...<P>I always thought that fan girls preferred Legolas because he was handsomer... <P>All in all, I think that PJ did a pretty good job portraying Gimli.<p>[ November 07, 2003: Message edited by: Imladris ]