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That's my point, if we accept all the other 'fantasy' in LoTR, what's the problem with Gimli being able to run. Facts are horses can't and don't run like Shadowfax, heck even Brego is an extraordinary horse in real horse standards, come to think of it so is Bill the Pony.

If we are going to apply human standards to Gimli, then we need to apply those same standards to Legolas, Aragorn, Frodo, Sam, and every one else in the books and movies. So if we do that Elves are nothing more than people who have really screwed up calendars and only have one month years. Aragorn couldn't possibly be an 80 plus year old man so he has one of those really silly Elvin calendars too. Frodo and Sam would have the same knee, back and other health issues that modern Little People have and would in no way be able to walk anywhere near as many miles as they did. And as for the Witch King...in reality we don't have zombies so the question of him being able to beat Gandalf is a non-issue. Well then again in reality we don't have demi-gods pretending to be wizards either, so I guess no Gandalf either.

But in the movie I think PJ missed the boat with WK beating down Gandalf, it was bad and made me feel like Gandalf had suffered a needless character assassination.


And StW's diaroma's are very nice and must have taken a great deal of work and time.