Gimli the Greatest Being in Middle Earth!

[aragornreborn]

I found this in someone else's post who was quoting from UT, but it struck me as quite interesting.

the Eldar said that the light of the Two Trees, Laurelin and Telperion, had been snared in [Galadriel's] tresses. Many thought that this saying first gave to Fëanor the thought of imprisoning and blending the light of the Trees that later took shape in his hands as the Silmarils. For Fëanor beheld the hair of Galadriel with wonder and delight. He begged three times for a tress, but Galadriel would not give him even one hair. These two kinfolk, the greatest of the Eldar in Valinor, were unfriends for ever.

Feanor, who some consider the greatest elf in ME (I see you Luthien and Fingolfin people coming to get me. For the record, I go for Legolas [and, no, that's not for looks], but I'm getting off topic of my own topic), asked three times and did not receive a single hair. Gimli, a dwarf in a very elves-hate-dwarves-and-dwarves-hate-elves time period, asked for a single hair and received three. What do you all think? Just why is Gimli so special? Or is he? The Battle of Wits has begun.