Comical Parts

[Glaurung]

In LotR there is one passage that always makes me if not laugh, then at least smile.

'Dark ways, doubtless,' said Gimli, 'but no darker than these staves are to me.'

Or this one, also (suprisingly) by Gimli:

'Since Gandalf's head is now sacred, let us find one that is right to cleave!'

But, though all my favourite comical parts involve Gimli, I think Jackson has made Gimli far too humorous a character. It takes all the point away of the comical part of Gimli's nature.. At least so it seems to me.