It works for Gimli because A.) He's useful and does far more than just make jokes B.) His humor is very character-specific. Every funny thing he says is funny because it's Gimli saying it, and the humorous ways he responds to various situations are very in-character

one big issue i have with the extended editions is there's even more gimli comic relief, when it would've been nice if he had been fleshed out at least a little more.

@@Definitely_Not_Sheev_Palpatine This is true. Merry and Pippin were able to deliver the slapstick or dimwitted styles of joke, Smeagol/Gollum the nonsensical and strange and Gimli the hyper masculine competitive humour. Spreading the humour across characters like this allows each character to breathe and have a rational reason for being included in the plot. Compare Jar Jar. Had he been clumsy under pressure but keen to consider options when given time to do so, he could've been a valuable foil to Anakin's rage. Were he a physical specimen with no mind for strategy or decision making, he would counter the Jedi teaching neatly yet remain a useful ally. Meanwhile, C3PO and R2D2 could've taken some comedic aspects from him - as could young Anakin and even Yoda.

​@@adamrobinson6951 Well said.

"NOT THE BEARD!!"

Underrated.

Lmao

Counting with Gimli son of Gloin

Lmao

What a legend

this is the line that converted me into a Gimli fan. i love him so much and it took 20 years. it was when i put captions on the extended version for the first time and read every line. he said that and i immediately loved what a bad ass he was. never really realized it growing up.

With that Welsh accent makes it 10x better as well

i dig the german translation here more. "Hier ist noch ein Zwerg der nicht zu Staub zerfallen ist". which would translate to "there is still one more dwarf who hasn't crumbled to dust."

im glad barely anyone liked your failed attempt at promoting your terrible channel, good try tho

had to check my heart was still beating XD

***** that might be why i died laughing XD

I lost it as well, fell of my chair.

Yeah, but were people aware of a nervous system since Middle-earth is kind of in old days?

Superfirefox1996 of course, they also used nukes when t'was required

AaAaAaAaAah

Stop...what am i feeling 😭😭😭😭

Instead you get a burp and some moaning.

agreed

Awww :')! Don't make me hold tears back!

Only 2 of the three were able to achieve success so

Hey it worked.

He did beat the Elf though!

That's the most intelligent thing. You can't cut or shoot green farts, come on

No he didn't. LOTR isn't an historical work.

gimli the witcher dwarf

@@aidanmagill6769 fucking obviously

@@aidanmagill6769 are you sure? We weren't there.

Well considering there are wizards that work magic. There might be more efficient studies on the human body. So people's knowing about the nervouss system isn't that surprising.

hahahaha truee :'')

kissos man lol so true

kissos man so true

kissos man i think every battle is just another ranked co-op multiplayer for both of them. lol.

you are very right

Omenakookos haha yes! Same with Richard Armitage (Thorin). I think Lee Pace was the tallest main actor at 6'4", but Richard and Graham McTavish were very close behind, both over 6'. Yet they have to appear to be about 5' tall. Movie magic is great.

Omenakookos it made it easier for them to show that the hobbits are smaller then the dwarves

M

I believe Sir Christopher Lee was taller?

@@basicpigeonbee yes, he was 6'6"

Haldir AND Darken Rahl.

i'm convinced the weapons drawn on them was merely to scare gimili, they knew who they were the entire time XD

Meme lol

The dwarf breathes so strongly he can blow away the dead.

@@lordfury18 So the elves fail basic weapon safety. Knife eared wankers.

And in the BOOK, that thing had a NAME. "Durin's Axe." This movie just got more epic.

@@Vyrexuviel was the axe actually used by Durin?

@@aeroanosupremo No Idea, but in the book, the chamber they're in is called the "Chamber of Mazabel", or the Chamber of Records. Before the fight, they found a book in there, which chronicled the fortunes of Balin's expedition, and it explicitly mentions both "Durin's Axe" and "something Helm", probably relics that the dwarves retrieved from wherever the King of the Dwarves' regalia was stolen off to by the orcs. If I'm right, then the axe Gimli picked up to use in that fight, and which he kept for the rest of the adventure is that so-named Durin's Axe. The Axe of the Dwarven King. But that's just my wild speculation. ^^

Wow. will check that in next lort marathon

Wow. will check that in next lort marathon

stole ma comment. how rude

didnt see it, sorry

Not gonna lie, "Toss me" wasn't the best way to say it.

ANGL KING DHIA would you prefer toss me off lol

To be fair, the King of Gondor isn't exactly a "nobody." It can still be argued that nobody can toss a dwarf.

You rite

@@carsonofson2347 you mean "right", right?

Dude how do they skip that one?

Ikr

Exactly. How could they leave that one out? SMH.

line line

The thing that really sold it was his yanking on the axe and the orc randomly spasming.

@@Elthenar The actors who play the orcs and Uruk-Hai in the films really don’t get enough credit 🤣

The lord of the rings had such masculine male characters. But they were definitely not toxic because they fought for the ones they loved and cared about.

That’s me when my best friend comes back to school after being sick 😭

They would .

*Mah axe

Well, it was discovered in Ancient Greece, I believe.

i thought he said 'ass'

Im sure elves can figure out the nervous system within their lifespan

*TWENTY-OOOOOOONE!*

@@ianbruce1745 TWENTY-TTTWWWOOOO!

Honestly, I'd probably find that at least a bit inspiring. Him being on their side and all.

@@SubduedRadical Right! Its surely a huge Moral boost to the troops. "That Dwarf is killing them all by himself! His at Twenty already!" And how quickly he counted when smacking down the orc's on the ladders. "His really getting em!" And his rather "calm" counting might even have had a slight calming effect among all that chaos.

TWENNYONE

Yeah

He works as a comic relief, because as someone said in this comment section, they split the comic relief between him, Merry and Pippin and, oddly enough, Gollum; all with their own way of being funny.

@@varric Indeed. Though with Gollum/Sméagol in particular, he is both funny and tragic.

And the "don't tell the elf" lmao

Actually he said "that is my wife!" And "that's me we lad gimli"

Lol

What's this from ?

@@Jake-rj6ql kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6lmpq6F1szLl2w.html

@@EveryoneElseIsWeirdImNormal Love Your Name

I think Beorn played a huge factor.

100th like

The dumb thing is that this line contradicts the book directly

@Leonardo Cesana it never fails to make me laugh! 😂

melkor lapich That the opposite is true? That dwarves are better cross country than sprinting because of their short legs but great endurance? Yeah, it’s supposed to. That was the whole point of Gimli’s line, it’s the same way he said he has the eyes of a hawk and the ears of a fox but failed to notice the elves drawing their bowstrings in his face. It was meant to be completely contradictory to reality.

He's a girthy fellow for one so tall

@@alext2566 we are bred big in height (if we are lucky) but definitely wide in Wales.

I've always seen the dwarves as Scots, and the Rohirrim as Irish.

@@retriever19golden55 makes the elves welsh then? Baring in mind the language is very similar 😜

​@@retriever19golden55 nah, Rohirrim is Northumbrians

Thanks for sharing. I'm not into the books, but it definately adds a nice layer of context to the movies.

I add more. Centuries before Faenor, perhaps the greatest elven smith in the Middle Earth and grandfather of Celebrimbor, asked for a single strand of her hair. Yet Galadriel refused. She felt the darkness on his heart, the greed and envy running inside him. And he requested it in 3 ocasions. Granting three to Gimli is, as result, a proof that she trusts and believes on the pure hearted dwarf more than one of her folk.

@@fabiocosta3830, I'll add more. Feanor created the Silmarills because he was inspired by the concept that Galadriel's hair captured the merged light of the Two Trees of Valinor, which were the source of light before the sun. Once Melkor and Ungoliant had poisoned the two trees, and Feanor was denied strands of Galadriel's hair, the Silmarills were the only way of retaining the light of the trees. Feanor hoarded the gems and would not allow the Gods (the Valar) to restore the two trees with their light. This allowed Melkor to steal them and retreat to Middle Earth. Feanor then swore an oath to pursue Melkor and regain the Silmarils. It was this oath that first led the Elves to return to Middle Earth from Valar since creation, and though the elves were never strong enough to directly oppose Melkor...it would be this conflict over the Silmarils that would lead to much death and sadness among the elves in Middle Earth. This is essentially the beginning of recorded history in Middle Earth. Eventually, one would be recovered by Beren...and eventually through a long story set in the heavens as the brightest evening star. The other two would not be recovered for a long time...and their recovery would be resisted by the jewels themselves. The two elves that recovered them from Melkor's defeat would throw themselves into a volcano and the sea respectively. Meaning that the three jewels would reside in the sky, sea, and land. It is said that when the end of time comes, the Valar (the Gods) will reunite the gems, and Feanor will open them and restore the two trees and the world will again be restored to perfection. So...Galadriel's hair is as desired as the three most powerful peaces of jewelry EVER KNOWN in all the history of Middle Earth. They are even more desired than Sauron's ring of power. Feanor, one of the most accomplished and powerful Elves EVER asked for them even to restore the world...and Galadriel said no. So, when Gimli asks and she gives him three...its a HUGELY significant symbolic gesture.

​@dclark142002 also Feanor caused a metric ton of problems because of those gems as well

@Rauno-Rainis Pähkel i mean im not gonna call ya a smartass

@Rauno-Rainis Pähkel Smartass! Didn't want you going through life disappointed. ;-)

"It's a long way"

In the Scottish accent always kills me.

It's a credit to the LOTR that it still feels like believeable fiction without taking you out of the adventure despite them being able to rack up all those kills. Meanwhile the Studio made Hobbit movies have scenes where the characters talk about being ready to take on 100s (1000s?) of Orcs on their way in open ground with no cover as just the two of them and it seems so silly and like you're watching a dumb video game instead lol.

Only a toss from a friend will be accepted !

Holy crap never connected that

I enjoy how Aragorn made the toss so it looked like Gimli jumped that far anyway

As long as elves don't know about it...

@@kyoswkyosw1216 Pretty sure it was the CGI making it look like that. You'd have to be pretty stacked to be able to physically throw all 6'1" of John Rhys-Davies across a film set.

Ten days?! Aragorn told Legolas about it the following morning.

@@tiaaaron3278 Aragorn told Legolas as soon as he and Gimli had been pulled up the wall. In fact he was shouting it while being pulled up.

Aragon is Toss boi confirmed

@@lisahenry20 and that is why they are best friedns

@@lisahenry20 did he really? That would be funny af but i can't imagine Aragorn being so humorous during battle when his men are dying and fighting for their lives..

not to mention his shorter steps

really?

Dwarves have shit tons of stamina, he might not have been the fastest sprinter but in terms of continued pursuit over hundreds of miles he was a monster

Nope, chapter: The riders of rohan p 25 'They were going slowly now, and Gimli's back was bent. Stonehard are the dwarves in labour or journey, but this endless chase began to tell on him, as all hope failed in his heart. Aragorn walked behind him, grim and silent, stooping now and again to scan some print or mark upon the ground. Only Legolas stepped as lightly as ever, his feet hardly seeming to press the grass, leaving no footprints as he passed,...'

Kitti Koen I love it when people quote the book

"Orcs don't suffer from demoralization." Tell that to the Orcs getting run over by the Rohirrim.

Me personally i would surrender

@@PeachDragon_ Fine. You surrender. Make sure they tie you up good. Gives me more time to run away.

“Orcs don’t suffer from demoralization.” Then why did they shit themselves during the Battle of the Five Armies when 13 extra dwarves popped up

tell that to the orcs i torture on a regular basis in shadow of war.

This whole video was a big dry hump because they didn't include that one.

I just realised the context of that comment. All these years I assumed he meant a box to use as his coffin. I didn't realise he also meant to stand on.

Man it’s just like Vermintide

Haha that’s the signal for the Uruk-Hai to steer clear of those two particular ladders!

@@thelordchancellor3454 I love that game

no stouter companion in battle than a dwarf. There like wombats, you can literally throw them at the enemy and get impressive results.

I still think that the final kill count was a bit off, even after all this time. I'm pretty sure both Legolas and Gimli got AT LEAST 100+ each!

Actually, he lied to win. If he killed the Uruk instead of Gimli, he wins by one.

Aragon is a super human, numenorean, that's what balances the trio.

+Georgie Pineda numenorians aren't super humans, they are just gifted with long life

He's a descendant of the Numenoreans, he is a Dunedain

who knew? Tolkien apparently.

What I'm more concerned about is that apparently their DM let them have two rangers and a fighter. Couldn't he at least convince one of them to play a cleric or something?

@P Dwarves were made to be tireless. Their muscles don't ache. They may be slower, but they keep on going

dwarves are always at short distances :D

@@R.E.D.A.C.T.E.D. GET THE FUCK OUT. Good pun, btw. But seriously, get out.

wake up dwarves, the human is taking our lady folks

@@averinus7706 Of course they're tireless. Imagine a dwarf with tires...

I put a carburetor fire out like that once on a 68 Cougar

I sometimes forget Eomer is a side character

I think it is because of this movie, is legendary, everything in this movie is just perfect, without this movie i may never know LOTR and Tolkien

You couldn't have said it better mate 👌🏻

Every character of the fellowship in the films and books are important to the story.

@@franbow984 lol gotta be careful of overgeneralization: Tom Bombadil. Great character but of no consequence to the plot.

Feanor, right?

Nope. Harry Potter.

Rougarou uh

@@Rougarou99 no

@@imme246 Yes.

Yeah, not bad for an 80 year old right?

@@kebsis almost 90 which makes even freaking better

Plus he is wearing more armor than anyone else. Impressive

Aragorn is not human.

@@shinjiprofile Aragorn is mostly human, but the type of human that's better than all the rest in middle earth

I want that on a t-shirt 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I used to think that axe was ass

I like how when the axe moves the orc flails.

That was gold! I just laughed at it and saw this

I love how this implies that science is advanced enough in Middle Earth that they know about nervous systems

Well elves are generally condescending bastards, to give them the satisfaction of losing to them is worse than death

Because f*ck elves. Knife eared d*ouches

The definition of "I exist in spite of you."

@@Deadlock239 dwarf spotted

Elves don't deserve rights

gotta use the b to blow skills X3

You know what with you and your old Mark references? XD

X3 idk :p

i couldn't stop laughing even when i tried

*DOES* BLOW AWAY THE GHOSTS

Yasss

comment of the day

Nikolas Arvonen It's not camping, it's called "Aggressively waiting"

Nikolas Arvonen Gimli is not a spawn camper, he is *THE INVENTOR* of spawn killing

It's a legitimate strategy.

😂😂😂😂

Dwarves will beat you from the waist down 😂😂

dont remind me, i had tear in my eyes after seeing that for the first time

Urk Hai: I must fulfill my destiny! I will be known as a hero back in Isengard.

@@Darksaviour balls got chopped

Which movie?

@@commenent8313 First one? When they enter Moria.

@@jakomioftherose2434 Oh ok. I just didn’t remember that part. Thx tho!

I came here for this one! “A miiiiiine!”

This is no mine. It's a tomb

Hahaha, this made me laugh, thanks

I was at that exact moment when i read your comment

Yeah, such a good quote

@@darthvader5263 in late October?? Where are bees at this season?

@@thejohnson2328 If you're in the Southern hemisphere, any place with flowers

Without their knowledge of anatomy bifur would've never survived the axe in his head

A good answer for those in rush and who have not read the book to say "Aw, c'mon, gotta be simple to melt a simple ring in any good forge, right?"...

Lord Jeffries my fave too hahaha

and lets not forget: "Theres plenty for the both of us, let the best dwarf win."

Also Gimli: I never tought I would die side by side with an elf. Legolas: How about side by side with a friend? Gimli: I, I could do that.

233Deadman The best line in the world :D

the key is to keep breathing?

You also forgot: Gimli to Aragorn: Well Lad, if its luck you live by, lets hope it last's the night. Legolas: Your friends are with you Aragorn. Gimli: Lets hope, they last the night................ AND Gimli: This new Gandalf's more grumpier than the old one....

Ty Robertson "I believe war is already marching on their doorstep."

@@FreedomFighter08 nice refference made to the other battles that place at the same time as the siege of Minas Tirith: the three sieges of Lorien, the battles in Mirkwood (the Battle Under the Trees) and the battle of Dale and Erebor (battle which cost the life of King Dain Ironfoot for Erebor and King Brand for Dale).

@@FreedomFighter08 nice refference made to the other battles that place at the same time as the siege of Minas Tirith: the three sieges of Lorien, the battles in Mirkwood (the Battle Under the Trees) and the battle of Dale and Erebor (battle which cost the life of King Dain Ironfoot for Erebor and King Brand for Dale).

@dianna k Thranduil's kingdom was attacked by an orc host from Dol Guldur and possibly Easterlings of Rhûn, under the supposed leadership of Khamul the Easterling (second Nazgul in command). It was part of a larger invasion force which was also involved in the three sieges of Lorien. Both the sieges and the Battle Under the Trees took place around the same time, the plan being to attack the north from multiple directions and not allowing the dwarves, men and elves gather together their forces.

5:05

Lol right and him blowing the ghostly hands away

That's only in the director's cut, didn't make the film original release

Dave! Yognau(gh)t its treason then

@@goonxxi lots of the scenes in this video are from extended edition

@@hendrikkranen662 hello there

@@nucleargoat6007 General Kenobi

Aah the beauty of a well written character

“Riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!”

@@gawainethefirst I wonder if they kept breeding some orcs after the wars, just for Gimli and Legolas to have some fun 😁

To learn the praise of a fair lady under the loving strokes of a dwarf's axe will seem no great wonder

@@TrangDB9 they're hunting the rest which escaped at the gate of mordor haha

While he is very poetic in the books, most of his lines are ironically funny in a badass sort of way, his exchange with Theoden about the shield always makes me chuckle a little.

Imo in the books, Legolas is funnier than Gimli, because Legolas is so weird compared to everyone else in the fellowship. They make a good comic duo.

I spat my drink when he said that.

I missed the line but was trying to chew when i read your comment and almost died haha

I got to use that line in D&D to great effect playing as a my dwarf Duranir when some human wench was hitting on me lmao

Gimli was definitely buzzing! 🤣

That doesn't even make sense and isn't funny. He's saying "Here's to dwarves that go swimming with little, hairy women." Use your brain.

Aquarius 510 You know what would make that scene even better if Aragon walks past them and just says 74

Razay 95 lmao!!!! yesss!!!

If i remember it right (it was like 2 years ago) He says "in his head" in the german version of the movie

Piotr Dubrawski it is a possibility people knew about the nervous system for a very long time. Records dating all the way back to ancient Egypt when pharaohs would get mummified mentioned muscle movement after death due to specific muscles being touched. So it's very well possible for it to be known in medieval fantasy. A good example is looking at medieval autopsies. You'd be very surprised, doctors back then knew a good amount about the human body, they just didn't know until after the fact and how to experiment.

He is royalty. So, theoretically he could actually be very book smart, for Middle Earth that is. So who knows.

I loved those moments XD

Did you say salted pork?

I think those negotiations were … short.

Obi Wan level of SAS here

It didn't make it? Or is it only in the extended edition, cause I remember seeing this scene multiple times.

@@qr-code6334 it’s only in the extended version. The final cut version does not have it. I grew up watching that version and I never saw this scene in it.

Mentioning the nervous system is kinda meta for the setting on my opinion. I think this is why it's not in the final cut.

Saw what you did there. I'm sure you can trust him further than that.

@@vilstef6988 I would trust him a loth further then I can toss him.

warg*

what a lovable cute dwarf

Red Judas ugh this! HAHAHAHA

Legolas is a wood elf, which means he has partied alot since wood elves love to party. The fact that he's a prince means he had acces to the best elvish wine for millenia (which is stronger then regular beer) And not to forget that elves have a natural immunity to poison. So the fact that Gimli managed to get legolas to drink so much beer that he started to feel a slight tingling in his fingers is extremely impressive.

5:53

Ok og comment

Omg that gotta be the funniest thing I read. xD

Wait a moment the elf is counting too... AAAHHH!!!

I’m dying

Combined!

I disagree

I think he actually farted 🤣