About Gimli: I thought it was obvious that this is quite typical "courtly love" and adoration! It seems that many people nowadays just are not able to picture such a relationship anymore. Galadriel became Gimli's Guiding Star.
Anyhow,I think it's sad that in our time people can't read the word "love" without immediately thinking about a sexual or at least romantic attraction...
As Estelyn wrote:
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there are many kinds of love, and people of earlier times did not hesitate to call their feelings 'love', whether they had to do with a romantic or sexual relationship or not.
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In LotR "love" is usually used in the old sense, (like it also is in the Bible!)
Thus, if Sam says that he loves Frodo, there's nothing homoerotic about it, as some people seem to suspect.
Another exemple is Eomer saying to Aragorn: "Since the day when you rose before me out of the green grass of the downs I have loved you, and that love shall not fail."