COMPASS & LOTR comparison

[Sauron the White]

from Thinlomien

but why make Gimli ride in the first place, if most of the people are walking. Why on earth would Gimli ride willingly if he could walk as well?

Perhaps as a warrior, he was attempting to learn a new skill which could he employ in his repertoire? Remember in the first film we saw Boromir giving lessons in sword play to Merry and Pippin, so learning new techniques found a place on the menu. Again, this all sounds like so much nitpicking to find something wrong with the films when the vast majority of ticket buyers simply sat there, enjoyed the film and did not puzzle about such arcane questions. Out of the 185 million people who purchased tickets to TTT, how many actually sat there and had reservations about the incongruity about putting a Dwarf on a horse in the first place?