[Olorin_TLA]

The Hobbits aren't simple, they simply don't want power. They don't desire it, like Boromir, and they don't need it, like Gandalf.

The whole point with the Rings not corrupting the Dwarves a lot, but only making them greedy, is that they can't be corrupted easily, and even when Rings have an effect it's no where near as bad as the effect it has on Men (the Nazgul) etc. So I think this gold-greed would infact be a reason for Gimli to not be one to succumb. At least, not before the whole Fellowship had gone mad with desire. And frankly, would that have happened, with such good friends? Certianly Gimli wuld not have had the same immeditate need for the weapon of the enemy a Boromir percieved he did, or Gandalf and Aragorn, but then again the temptation to regain the glory days of the Dwarves would grow strong. But like Sam, I think he would have overcome it.