[the phantom]

Yeah, I'm sure there were some bad feelings left over from Thingol's death, but those weren't the same dwarves.

Since that event ages ago, these dwarves had distanced themselves from that reputation, had they not?

In The Silmarilion where it talks about the Last Alliance and the battle against Sauron, it said that the kindred of Durin of Moria fought alongside the elves. Not only that, but they dealt a severe blow to the orcs in their later war vs Azog and company.

And on top of that, I'll bring up the quote from The Hobbit again "..there was friendship in those parts between elves and dwarves and men". It said that there was friendship, not bad feelings.

So, not only does the book say the two peoples had "friendship", but the slaying of Thingol thousands of years ago by some other group of dwarves seems a silly reason for bad feelings, especially considering all the good that Gimli's people had done.

Which brings me back to my original question. Why did it seem like such a strain for those two at first? They should've already been over this whole elf/dwarf thing.

[ January 11, 2003: Message edited by: the phantom ]