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[rabidsamfan]

Gimli, Hollin, nearing the Redhorn Pass

Baraz, Zirak, Shathûr

How often have I drawn thee? Enough to know thee when I watched Balin’s company begin their journey along this road. Enough to know from afar.

But mountains change, depending on the place from which you view them. The Lonely Mountain has not the same shape from Near as Far. I did not realize what it was that I felt was wrong about thee three until we topped this rise and I saw thy outlines strong in the shapes I know by heart.

Now do I stand where Thráin stopped and looked back to mourn lost Khazad-dûm.

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Re: Gimli, Hollin

[eykar.livejournal.com]

Now THAT is dwarvish!

[mariole.livejournal.com]

You've really captured Gimli's nobility. Very moving.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

You're a drabble goddess. I don't think I could ever attempt to capture Gimli's voice, and you did so here very nicely!

[elycia.livejournal.com]

::points upward::

What she said!!!!

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Wow... from the first to the very last word. Simply wow.

[lily-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Nostalgic and yet very beautiful!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

What she said. Gimli is one of my favorite characters I've never written, because I know I don't get inside his head very well. You, you've done it spectacularly well!

Re: Gimli, Hollin

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. From you that means a great deal, as most of my flist are really hobbit fanciers!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Gimli fascinates me in many ways -- and his voice is very individual!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

It comes from going through and underlining all his dialogue and marking the pages where the story comes from his "point of view". Which I did with the entire Fellowship, one at a time, late last year. It stays with you that way...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (Same Explanation, points downward!)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I like Gimli. He's an interesting soul.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (I love it when I make people incoherent!) ;)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I got the idea from reading his speech about the three mountains again. It's amazing, thinking about the diaspora of the Dwarves.

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That last line just aches.

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

Now do I stand where Thráin stopped and looked back to mourn lost Khazad-dûm.

That last line made me shiver.

I can't say whether or not you have captured Gimli's voice, since he is one of the least known of the characters. But it feels to me that you may have. It is a compelling voice. And that last line... Wow.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Gimli is more eloquent about Moria and the three mountains than he is about anything else in the books, I think. The stories the dwarves tell must be amazing.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's like being homesick for a place you've never been, I expect.