I would also like to point out their family backgrounds: Thranduil, Legolas's father, in "The Hobbit" caught the Dwarves trespassing his land, and stopping his people's merry making, at least this is how he saw it.
Gloin, Gimli's father, was apart of the company going to the Lonely Mountain. During his trek through Mirkwood, he got captured by both spiders, and the elves. He had been imprisoned quite some time in the Halls of Thranduil, so, wouldn't that make you a bit resentful to the elves? Even if the elves apologized, which I'm not sure they did, wouldn't you be a little angry?
Furthermore, Legolas would naturally take his father's point of view, as Gimli would take his father's.
That Is Why Theyt Resent Each Other.
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