Confutatis Maledictis

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the lotr films love to present gimli as the ugly, dirty, ignorantly rude comic relief when the reality is that aragorn is a sweaty, grimy, greasy-haired ranger who sleeps rough on the road and maybe bathes once a month, and legolas is a feral cat who eats dirt and sleeps in trees and threatens anyone who tries to start shit with his friends with a notched arrow to the skull regardless of the potential consequences, while gimli is a dwarf prince who actually acts the part, is well-educated and mannered, has a strong sense of honor and duty, appreciates song, poetry and other fine arts and crafts as well as food and drink, and is actually probably the cleanest member of the three hunters. anti-dwarf propaganda never sleeps.

headcanon that during their time in the wild together chasing merry and pippin aragorn and legolas started behaving more and more oddly and gimli wasn’t sure whether it was because they were becoming friends so they felt they could be more like themselves around each other or if they were just fucking with him, but either way he was too afraid to ask