After This Video, You'll Never See Gimli the Same Way Again — LOTR Lore

You know the hair scene. You know the jokes about walking too far and counting orc kills. What you probably haven't sat with is why a Dwarf ended up on a ship to Valinor with no Ring-bearer's excuse, no cosmological precedent, and a six-thousand-year-old murder his own people committed hanging over every polite word he ever says to an Elf. This one goes past the films and into the Silmarillion, the Appendices, the Letters, and a philological rabbit hole about where Dwarvish names actually come from — because Gimli, son of Glóin, is doing far more theological and historical heavy lifting than anyone gives him credit for. Sources cited in this video: The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk" The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F The Silmarillion, "Of Aulë and Yavanna" The Silmarillion, "Of the Ruin of Doriath" The Silmarillion, "Of the Flight of the Noldor" The Silmarillion, the Ainulindalë Unfinished Tales, "Of Dwarves and Men" Morgoth's Ring (The History of Middle-earth, Vol. X) — "Laws and Customs among the Eldar" and the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 131 (to Milton Waldman) The Poetic Edda, Völuspá (the Dvergatal) — real-world source for Dwarvish names #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings #Gimli #Silmarillion #MiddleEarth #TolkienLore #Legolas #Galadriel #DeepLore #FantasyAnalysis