Initially, he didn't know that he would ultimately get to go to Valinor. Even if he did, he wouldn't have wanted to go. At the Council of Elrond, Gimli was staunchly anti-Elf, so telling him that he'd get to Valinor would only result in a reaction like "So what? I don't want to go to some poncy Elf paradise where they sing and dance all day long." Gimli wouldn't have chosen that alternative, even if he had it.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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