Elves and Dwarves...together??

[the phantom]

I think it's important that we understand what we mean by Gimli being "smitten by her". I don't think in this case that it meant he 'had the hots for her' or something on that line. I think it was more like he was looking at someone above him, almost like we'd look at an angel. It was more of wonder, admiration, and awe rather than his hormones going crazy and wanting to get it on with her. It was a pure, high form of adoration, not some crude thing. I don't think the thought would ever come into his head to get physical, he'd probably think of that as blasphemy. Galadriel was above that type of desire.

Also, dwarves were of different build and had a different look than elves, and so I imagine their defenition of who's hot and who's not would be different. To dwarves, I imagine some of their dwarve women looked hot. I think dwarves would be about as likely to go for an elf in that sense as you would be to go for a dwarf.