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Gimli Elf-friend

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Timeline:

Dates:

III 2879 - IV 120

Race:

Dwarves

Division:

Durin's Folk

Family:

House of Durin

Meaning:

Probably 'fire'¹

Titles:

Elf-friend, Lord of the Glittering Caves

Descendant of the Kings of Durin's Folk

Glóin

Gimli
Elf-friend

Son of Glóin, he travelled from Rivendell with the Company of the Ring. After the breaking of the Fellowship at Parth Galen, he hunted Orcs across Rohan with Aragorn and Legolas. He fought at the Battle of the Hornburg, and at the Pelennor Fields. He is famed for his fast friendship with Legolas the Elf; some stories say that they sailed into the West together - if this is true, then Gimli was the first and only of dwarven-kind to come to the Undying Lands.

Footnotes

1	In common with nearly all Tolkien's dwarf-names, Gimli comes from a Mannish tongue, based on Old Norse. Unusually, Tolkien himself seems uncertain on the original meaning of Gimli, but it appears to have had the meaning 'fire'. In Norse mythology, Gimli was not the name of a person, but of a place: a great golden-roofed hall in Asgard where the righteous were taken after death. A golden-roofed hall appears in Tolkien's work, too, of course - the Golden Hall of Meduseld at Edoras - though it is unclear whether there is a connection. In Adûnaic, gimli means 'stars' (from gimil, 'star') but this is probably no more than a coincidence.

In common with nearly all Tolkien's dwarf-names, Gimli comes from a Mannish tongue, based on Old Norse. Unusually, Tolkien himself seems uncertain on the original meaning of Gimli, but it appears to have had the meaning 'fire'.

In Norse mythology, Gimli was not the name of a person, but of a place: a great golden-roofed hall in Asgard where the righteous were taken after death. A golden-roofed hall appears in Tolkien's work, too, of course - the Golden Hall of Meduseld at Edoras - though it is unclear whether there is a connection.

In Adûnaic, gimli means 'stars' (from gimil, 'star') but this is probably no more than a coincidence.

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