Gimli Quotes – Wisdom and Wit from the Dwarf Warrior of Middle-earth
Certainty of death, small chance of success… What are we waiting for?
Nobody tosses a dwarf!
I will be dead before I see the ring in the hands of an elf!
I would beg you to seek out the Lady Galadriel. Ask her for a strand of her hair. I love elves!
I cannot jump the distance. You’ll have to toss me!
They had no honor in life; they have none now in death.
There is one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath.
I don’t know, but let’s hope it’s more than last time.
I would stay still if I were you. Horrible things have been happening over here.
I’m wasted on cross-country! We dwarves are natural sprinters! Very dangerous over short distances!
I’ve got my eye on you!
Your uncle’s no shire-reckoner. Far too many barrels of ale, slipped under his door, if you ask me.
You’ll have to toss me!… don’t tell the elf.
You’ll have to do better than that!
That is one of my advisors.
There’s nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home.
I’ll take my chances on my own.
I would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.
This new Gandalf is more grumpy than the old.
The fuel of death.
I cannot jump the distance, you’ll have to toss me!
I’m on nobody’s side, because nobody is on my side.
I never thought I’d die side by side with an elf.
It’s true you don’t see many dwarf women. And if fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they’re often mistaken for dwarf men.
I never take chances; what are you thinking about?
What’s happening at court? I heard a fly on a throne was swatted!
Give me your name, horse-master, and I shall give you mine.
Well, that rules you out, Pip.
I go back to my books!
I will not turn my back on my own people!
Keep breathing. That’s the key. Breathe.
If Gimli were here, he’d have something nasty to say.
If I found it on the ground, I would give it to a woodsman.
Boromir! Give the ring to Frodo!
Frodo, get out of here!
Nine companions. So be it. You shall be the fellowship of the ring.
Now come the days of the king. May they be blessed.
You shall not pass!
That still only counts as one!
I’ve never been so wrong in all my life!
This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.
A red sun rises… blood has been spilled this night.
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.
Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
There’s nothing like looking, if you want to find something.
Let’s hunt some orc!
I’ll have no pointy-ear outscoring me!
You will take no oath, but you will be known as the Load Bearers.
Gimli Elf-friend. Hm? It’s not a bad name.
The walls of Moria!