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04-11-2003, 08:10 PM | #1 |
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Why do you think Gimli never calls Legolas by name?
As far as I know Gimli hardly ever, or maybe doesn't, call Legolas by his name. How weird is that? I'd think that becouse they were best freinds they'd call each other by name.
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04-12-2003, 01:20 AM | #2 |
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Yeah, i don't think he ever calls him by name. He usually refers to him as "laddie", which i find hilarious, since Gimli is so much shorter and younger than Legolas.
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04-12-2003, 01:23 AM | #3 |
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I don't remember Gimli ever calling Legolas laddie. I don't even remember short-funny-person calling pretty-golden-boy laddie.
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04-12-2003, 01:30 AM | #4 |
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Did you just call Legolas pretty?
Anyway I think he never calls him by name purely for humor. I think it is pretty funny how he only says "the elf," espesially in the beginning of the Fellowship.
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04-12-2003, 01:33 AM | #5 |
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Yes. Legolas is definitely the "pretty boy" of the Fellowship, hence the fangirl following.
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04-12-2003, 08:33 AM | #7 |
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Yes, Gimlie calls Legolas "The Elf" instead of Legolas. Even in TTT when Aragorn was going to throw him off the bridge to attack he said, "Just don't tell The Elf!" He calls him by that name...actually I don't remember him calling ANYONE by their real names! He calls frodo, sam, merry, and pippin "the hobbits"! Weird...
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04-12-2003, 01:42 PM | #9 |
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It's a formal thing to not call someone by their actual name. Gimli calls Legolas, 'Master Elf', also.
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04-12-2003, 02:25 PM | #10 |
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If you didn´t know that Legolas and Gimli were friends though, you couldn´t guess it from the movie. I personally find "the elf" rather "rude" word to use from someone; if they have names, why not use them? I don´t think that Legolas ever calls Gimli by name either?
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04-12-2003, 02:43 PM | #11 | |
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04-12-2003, 03:41 PM | #12 | |
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04-12-2003, 05:21 PM | #13 |
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I think it's kind of a nickname thing. You know banter. Master elf and Master Dwarf.
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04-12-2003, 07:00 PM | #14 |
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My name is Katrina and no one has called me ANYTHING here! No one has called me by any name Weird.....no one uses names anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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04-12-2003, 07:11 PM | #15 |
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Not true! We use them only when necessary or to direct a thought to a specific person Like now you know I'm talking to miss_poet cause you're the last one who posted.
You don't have any nicknames? On Entmoot or at home?
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Still-not-king: Their pace quickens. They must have caught our scent. Hurry! Pretty-elf-boy: Come on Gimli! Gimli: Three day's and night's pursuit.. no food... no rest... and no sign of our quarry but what bare rock can tell. [The Three Hunters run across rocks and plains, with Still-not-king in the lead, and Pretty-elf-boy and Gimli trailing behind. Still-not-king suddenly bends down to pick up an Elven brooch from the ground.] Still-not-king: Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall. Pretty-elf-boy: They may yet be alive. Still-not-king: Less than a day ahead of us, come! Pretty-elf-boy: Come Gimli! We are gaining on them. Gimli: I'm wasted on cross-country. We dwarves are natural sprinters. Very dangerous we are over short distances. I always thought it was odd that he would say "Come Gimli" two times in the same scene, so it stuck with me. Oh, and i found the place where Gimi calls Pretty-elf-boy "lad" Pretty-elf-boy: Aragorn, nedin dagor hen ú-'erir otheri. Natha daged dhaer. [Translation: "They cannot win this fight. They are all going to die!"] Still-not-king: Then I shall die as one of them! [Still-not-king exits.] Gimli: [To Pretty-elf-boy]: Let him go, lad. Let him be. Quote:
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04-13-2003, 04:28 AM | #17 |
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i think he probably didnt have enoough respect for the elves to call him by their name. Or maybe it wasnt inthe script
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Another reason might be that Gimli has really crummy lines. And either he didn't have a lot of lines, or they had little to no impact, because there didn't seem to be enough time for decent lines.
This isn't to say I didn't like Gimli at all, because I did like him, but he wasn't very much like the book Gimli we all know and love. That's why he might not be addressing Legolas as his friend, and by his name.
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