What did Gimli say?

[paavo]

In Lorien Haldir says something about dwarfs and Gimli responses saying something in dwarfish/elvish. To that Aragorn says "that was not polite". What did Gimli say?

[Finwe]

It technically wasn't anything in Khuzdul. John Rhys-Davies made that up on the spur of the moment just so it would sound something like a curse in Khuzdul.

[Knight of Gondor]

I beg to differ...I don't believe they would allow for ad-libs like that, except in the case of the Cry of Anguish after the Helmet Kick of Dumbness.<P>According to <A HREF="http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie_fotr.htm#ishkhaqwi" TARGET=_blank>this movie Elvish site</A>, he says Ishkhaqwi ai durugnul, which is translated "I spit on your grave." I do not know how technically accurate this is to Tolkien's original conception for the tongue of the Dwarves, but this is how it was intended for the movie.

[Burzdol]

I do believe that he did say I spit on your grave. But that's only loosly translated in the previous site and my mind.

[Finwe]

Ah... sorry. *blushes*<P><BR>I read on a movie Elvish site that the line was supposed to mean "I spit on your grave," but John Rhys-Davies was given leave, after some coaching in rudimentary Khuzdul, to come up with something that sounded like Khuzdul.<P>I'm deeply sorry that I was mistaken.

[Jjudvven]

Ahh... Thanks I've often wondered what that line meant. Now I can repeat it to all my friends and insult them. *evil laugh*

[sassyfriend]

Oh behave!!!! Yes it is I spit on your grave

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

It doesn't strike me as a meaningful thing to say to a living person. Maybe they should have saved it until the Helm's Deep scene.

[Inziladun]

It doesn't strike me as a meaningful thing to say to a living person. Maybe they should have saved it until the Helm's Deep scene.

Maybe he was really saying it to Peter Jackson in retaliation for the horrible dialogue. :p