Canadians are essentially Tolkien-eque dwarfs

[james_davis_nicoll]

"A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means."

Anna Brownell Jameson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838)

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[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the first bit. And Gimli was a bit nervous about forests, IIRC.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Gimli was a bit nervous about Lothlorien and Fangorn, both the abodes of extremely powerful entities he knew almost nothing about. That's no more proof of not liking trees than the hobbits being nervous of the Old Forest.

"Down the centre stalked a double line of towering pillars. They were carved like boles of mighty trees whose boughs upheld the roof with a branching tracery of stone. Their stems were smooth and black, but a red glow was darkly mirrored in their sides. Right across the floor, close to the feet of two huge pillars a great fissure had opened. Out of it a fierce red light came, and now and again, flames licked at the brink and curled about the bases of the columns. Wisps of dark smoke wavered in the hot air."

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

How did Gimli feel about out-of-fuel 767s?