In the movie, Gimli seems stunned Moria is in ruins but obviously it had fallen long before. He acted as though he'd recently been there and all was well, yet the dwarf dead were dusty skeletons and the enemy seemed well established. That's hardly what you'd expect if the dwarfs had lost recently and if they'd been long dead, then wouldn't Gimli have known that?
2006-12-09 14:42:42 · 7 answers · asked by John B 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Dwarf time runs differently to human time, what may have seemed like last month to them, is in acctuality closer to a century in human years....
2006-12-09 14:47:17 · answer #1 · answered by Mintjulip 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Gimli seemed so stunned because, even though Moria was conquered before Gimli was even born, there was a colony sent to establish a foothold in Moria. The colony was sent 30 years before the Fellowship got there. He had expected to see these people in Moria even though they hadn't sent word back to Erebor for 25 years. That is why Moria looked like it had been abandoned for a thousand years, because it was. The Dwarves that had come to colonize it had done little to make reparations because they had only 5 years to work in a very large network of tunnels. Poor Gimli was hoping to see Balin, and old friend of Gimli's father who had gone on the quest with Bilbo and had led the expedition to Moria. Unfortunately the Balrog and orcs had killed Balin and the rest of the members of the colony.
2014-01-24 08:34:46 · answer #2 · answered by Tyler 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 'Lord of the Rings' movies were great, but to fully understand Middle Earth you need to read all the books and research J.R.R. Tolkien more closely. The movies were just a quick summary or compilation of the books. The duration of all the events depicted in the movies actually took many years in the books. Dwarfs were not a huge community spread all across Middle Earth but were several small clans spread across many lands not even mentioned in the movies. When Elrond called for the council at Rivendell, it was not stated in the movie how far Gimli had traveled to get to the meeting.
2006-12-10 11:22:42 · answer #3 · answered by one eye 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the movies don't show the passing of time clearly. I've only read the first book and there are things that don't come accross. such as gandalf, his leaving after the party at the beginning of the movie to his next appearance appears quite swift, it was actually 10 years later when he arrived and put the ring in fire.
and keep in mind that it would've been months of walking from gimli's place to moria and its not as though they had telephones.
2006-12-10 03:29:48 · answer #4 · answered by shaney 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh, that's hilarious. My dad just remarked on the same thing. How did Gimli not know how to get in the Mines of Moria in the first place, being that he's a dwarf, and his cousin would have given them a royal welcome?
2006-12-09 22:45:15 · answer #5 · answered by Teresa 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The conditions of the bodies indicated that it had been six months or so for Moria to end up that way, so something should have happened between
2006-12-09 22:51:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one had come or gone in a while, so how could he know.Gimli just assumed his family was well, so of course he would be supprised to find out otherwise.
2006-12-09 22:54:48 · answer #7 · answered by greatful2be 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋