Lack of respect displayed by Gimli

[MatthewM]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Yet even through all this, notions of status were maintained. Civil servants were allocated desks, chairs and even sizes of the bits of carpet (bits because they only got a square of it) that would sit under their feet according to their rank.

I shouldn't imagine things were very much different in the dens of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Roosevelt.

So the argument of "It was wartime!" doesn't hold up in regard to the higher echelons of society. Given that, even in the fantasy world of Gondor I think it would have been grossly disrespectful for someone 'common' to plonk his bum on the Steward's Chair.

Thank you for giving us that insight of England during wartime! That is exactly right - "it was wartime" is not a valid reason for the disrespect shown by PJ's Gimli.