The Few, The Proud....The Gimli fans!

[Lanniae of the Axe]

You're right, Menelien. That's NOT how it should be. Then again, we don't want anyone who HASN'T read the books (heck, even some people who read the books AFTER they saw the movies) to even be joining our ranks as Tolkienites anyway, right?

And yes, I'll have to agree that I, too, am often a cynical bastard. Or just a mean one. One of the two... [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

and now people who never read the books or only read them after the movies will have that mental image of him stuck there

You're right! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] It's all about the image! So even if you DO have people who HAVE read the books, if they read 'em AFTER seeing the movies, they can't POSSIBLY EVER be CONSIDERED Tolkienites because...well, they just can't! They have a warped perception to begin with! Ah! That's SCARY!

OMG! Must go tell ALL my friends to READ THE BOOKS FIRST. I mean, it wasn't like I never let them go about it before, but, well, I'm gonna be more insistant from now on.

Okay, crap, Gimli thread, Gimli thread. *repeat to self* Gimli thread, Gimli thread.

There is only one Gimli son of Gloin, and he does not share his threads!

--Lanniae