[Olorin_TLA]

I don't think the hostility between Durin's line and Elves (out of Lórien anyway) was very great here. Juts look at how they act during the Council - Glóin remembers his imprisonment by Thranduil and gets angry, but Gandalf tells them to get along and put aside their differences, and they do. After all, if they didn't trust them they could have had a powerful Elf-lord go isntead og Gimli.

This talk of Moria has got me interested...Dwarves need revenge. They've been wronged a lot, and Glóin even cries out in the Council, "When will come the day of our revenge!" - echoing Thorin's words about the Necromancer in The Hobbit. It really does seem that at Moria, if not before, Gimli would decide (if he had the Ring) that he had the strength to destory Sauron in the name of the Dwarves and the Free Peoples, and then retake all that Sauron had taken from the Dwarves and avange all that had been done to them.

In fact, my opinion of him goes up now...he could well have done a Boromir in Moria, or anywhere, for almsot the same reasons, but he resisted. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]