Lack of respect displayed by Gimli - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-23-2008, 03:09 PM

One person's mountain is another person's molehill and vice versa. That's forum culture! Mountain or molehill is a matter of perspective - from which vantage point does one see it? You have every right to call it a molehill in your opinion, and another has just as much right to say it is a mountain for her or him. Neither should be disrespectful of the other person's right to see a matter as important or unimportant.

Sauron the White · 01-23-2008, 03:54 PM

Estelyn... yes. I accept that and understand that. My molehill and mountain reference was to what started the complaint --- the actions of Gimli. Gimli did not break up the stewards chair for kindling. He did not wipe his muddy boots upon the edges of the chair to clean them. He did not place a chamber pot underneath it. He did not carve his initials into it with the edge of his axe. He did not do anything that was a serious or gross breach of respect.

What did he do? He sat in a chair during a meeting in that room in the middle of a war council planning important strategy. The fate of the Free Peoples was hanging in the balance with important decisions to be made and be made rather quickly.

01-23-2008, 03:09 PM	#1
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	One person's mountain is another person's molehill and vice versa. That's forum culture! Mountain or molehill is a matter of perspective - from which vantage point does one see it? You have every right to call it a molehill in your opinion, and another has just as much right to say it is a mountain for her or him. Neither should be disrespectful of the other person's right to see a matter as important or unimportant. __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

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01-23-2008, 03:54 PM	#2
Sauron the White Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 903	Estelyn... yes. I accept that and understand that. My molehill and mountain reference was to what started the complaint --- the actions of Gimli. Gimli did not break up the stewards chair for kindling. He did not wipe his muddy boots upon the edges of the chair to clean them. He did not place a chamber pot underneath it. He did not carve his initials into it with the edge of his axe. He did not do anything that was a serious or gross breach of respect. What did he do? He sat in a chair during a meeting in that room in the middle of a war council planning important strategy. The fate of the Free Peoples was hanging in the balance with important decisions to be made and be made rather quickly.