[Imladris]

Hmmm...I don't really see where you think that Gimli is cracking too many jokes (granted, the "tossing" thing was a joke). I was actually surprised that when Gimli was telling Eowyn about dwarves, that that information is actually in the appendixes.<P>PJ, in my opinion, is stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, he has the LotR fans who want to keep the characters and story as true as possible and on the other hand he has the ones who have never even heard of LotR. The books are quite dark and not a lot of people like dark. So he sprinkles a little humour in to lighten the mood, thus pleasing hopefully the majority of people except for those who think Gimli's the humour relief (which he is, even in the book).<P>I can only think of just two "short" joke that wasn't in the book (the tossing thing and "or would you like me to get you a box"). The others are in the book...except for him falling off the horse.