Dark Moon, Bright Star.
They are inclined to be fat in the stomach; they dress in bright colours (chiefly green and yellow); wear no shoes because their feet grow natural leathery soles and thick warm brown hair like the stuff on their heads (which is curly); have long clever brown fingers, good-natured faces, and laugh deep fruity laughs (especially after dinner, which they have twice a day when they can get it).
The remarkable bond between Legolas and Gimli was unique among Elves and Dwarves during the whole of the Third Age, and it earned Gimli, at the end of his days, the previously unheard-of gift of being allowed to sail west across the sea to the Undying Lands, to dwell in eternal peace with his friend.
He was gentle in bearing, and a lover of lore and of music, and therefore by many in those days his courage was judged less than his brother’s. But it was not so, except that he did not seek glory in danger without a purpose.
Part 38 of an incredibly long-winded appreciation of scenery in the Lord of the Rings trilogy x
