What if Gimli took The Ring?

>>211764142 (OP)
sauron would find him naked in a pile of gold

dwarves are dumb, he'd probably try to wear it around his cock

lets give the ring to the gluttonous jewish manlet I'm sure nothing will go wrong

>>211764142 (OP)
He would've dug a tunnel straight into the Earth and not stopped until he died.

>>211764142 (OP)
Benjamin Netanyahu is literally what would happen if a dwarf got the One Ring.

>>211764142 (OP)
>gets power
>rallies the dwarves to help defeat Sauron with the humans
>wins
>gets corrupted by repeatably using the
ring, gets paranoid
>thinks Aragorn/Gandalf want the ring
>kills them with ring strength
>tells the united Dwarves that men and elves are their enemies
>goes to war and kills a bunch of them
>goes back to conquer Moria, gets greedy, becomes a dark dwarven lord ruling over middle earth
Something like that

From the book:
> It would indeed be a betrayal, if we all left him, ' said Aragorn. 'But if he goes east, then all need not go with him; nor do I think that all should. That venture is desperate: as much so for eight as for three or two, or one alone. If you would let me choose, then I should appoint three companions: Sam, who could not bear it otherwise; and Gimli; and myself.'
So Aragon considered him one of the top guys in the fellowship. So maybe he could have done better than most. But book Gimli is a warrior poet. Movie Gimli is comic relief.

Why didn't they just throw the ring into the deepest part of the ocean?

>>211766955
>canonically giant many-tentacled beasts that want the one ring in a random lake
>letting some huge fuckin octopus become the dark lord of the seas

>>211764216
the dwarfs unironically were probably the best choices for the ring. They were immune to corrupting magic and Sauron's rings had no effect on them.

>>211767375
Yeah he can control the orcs to mass drown themselves in the ocean. It would be epic

>>211767515
>immune
Only Bombadil was immune to the effects of the ring.

>>211767515
>They were immune to corrupting magic

>>211767515
They weren’t immune, they got turned into greedy angry gnomes minings themselves to death

>>211766955
They needed to destroy the ring, hiding it wasn’t enough

>I am almost tempted to let you take it
>If only to see oakenshield suffer
>Watch it destroy him, hmm?
>Watch it corrupt his heart and drive him mad!
>But i think not
>I think our little game ends here
>So tell me, thief. How do you choose to die
*CHOMP*

>>211764142 (OP)
It would have been a short movie.

>>211767515
>They were immune to corrupting magic
Everyone else who commented was wrong. They weren't immune to the rings given to them, but that they were made by the god of autism himself, and it just magnified that.

A dwarf would have no use for a stupid bauble that gives you an invisibility power except maybe to use it to steal ale from the tavern

>>211770889
Based Fucking Aulë

Gimli was probably the most resistant to the ring behind Frodo. Still wouldn't have been able to destroy it though.

>>211770937
It has different powers based on the wielder only hobbits go invisible. For Elves it would've had a different effect & Dwarves something else

>>211770968
He's responsible for as much trouble on middle earth as Morgoth.
>teach feanor how to make pretty gems
>sauron was one of your right hand guys
>make dwarves who declared multiple jewish bloodwars and the one time they didn't they taught cerebrimbor how to craft metals like them, skills he uses to make some pretty rings with this cool guy he just met

>>211771175
Not his problems.

>>211771212
>tfw eru kicks in the door and catched aule playing with his dolls and threatens to smash his fucking lego set before feeling sorry for the sobbing neckbeard and decides to let him keep them but only if he puts them away nicely until playtime
it really is the deepest lore

>>211764142 (OP)
seriously what's to stop the ring from dissolving in any of the lava in the mines of moria?

>>211771465
Because it can only be unmade at the place it was created. Its thematically symmetrical.

>>211764142 (OP)
Why do you think he was allowed into the undying lands as the only alive Dwarf?

>virtually lacking in greed like his brothers
>cares only for the honor and the glory of beautiful craftsmanship
>with a good hall, ale, and friends to keep him company
>bridges the gap between all races on ME
movies shit on Gimli, book Gimli was as great in spirit as Samwise or anyone else.

>>211771582
>movies shit on Gimli
the books really don't have much for gimli and legolegs to do outside of a few asides here and there. Lorien, fangorn, the glittering caves, and catching merry and pippin up on everything that happend after they all meet up again at the grey council.
I don't like that they became comic relief, but if they didn't do something they'd just be standing around in the background even more than they do.

>>211764142 (OP)
He'd have destroyed it immediately with his mighty axe

>>211764142 (OP)
elf bitches

>>211764709
>>211764142 (OP)
Nah. Sauron was on the verge of winning the war regardless of the ring. Even after all those lost battles Sauron still had a huge army behind the black gates.
And even if Gimli took the ring, he would have lost it eventually in an underground skirmish or ambush , and it would still get back to Sauron .Or try to hide it , and Sauron would still win the war thanks to his numerous army.
LOTR isn't an hack and slash adventure film , is a Mission Impossible film lmao

>>211772896
Jackson cut as much as he could that wasn't either battles or Frodo & Sam.
I'm honestly amazed Aragorn got as much character development as he did.

>>211774310
Mellon

>>211764709
That sounds like a much better outcome. Leaf lovers begone.

>>211764709
No the ring would have mastered him and turned him into a wraith

Only a maiar like Gandalf or first gen elf like Galadriel would become analogous to Sauron in power

>>211764142 (OP)
>What if someone other than a Hobbit took the ring
They fall to the darkness of the ring before even getting close to Mordor, probably try to claim the ring for their own, get mobbed my an unending swarm of orcs until they finally die, and the ring is returned to Sauron

>>211764142 (OP)
he’d found goldman sachs

>>211776658
Dwarves don't turn into wraiths. He'd 100% just turn into a greedy despot just like what happened with the other dwarves who had the lesser rings of power, until Sauron builds up enough forces to take out his fortress and reclaim the ring. If another dragon doesn't get attracted by the massive hoard amassed by Gimli and does the job for Sauron.

>>211776940
Dwarven lords perhaps not but regular dwarves maybe

>>211777060
Gimli is a "dwarven lord" by birthright, you retard. He's not some random peasant fodder, he's aristocracy just like everyone else in the fellowship except for Sam.

Frodo - landed gentry
Merry and Pippin - landed gentry
Sam - inherits the role of gardener just because his dad is Frodo's gardener, typical of commoners working for landed gentry
Boromir - firstborn of the leader of Gondor, whose family have ruled for centuries
Aragorn - son of arathorn blah blah
Legolas - son of the king of the wood elves
Gimli - son of Gloin, one of the leaders of the mine retaken from Smaug, which makes him a lord.

Sam being the only commoner among them plays a vital role in the story.

>>211777344
>Gimli was descended from, but was not a member of the royal line

Ie
Not a lord
In this series lordship carries an implication of greater power
See the difference between Boromir and Aragorn

>>211764142 (OP)
Total elf death
Good ending

>>211777457
Gimli is descended from Durin himself and his father is a current lord of Lonely Mountain so it's not just an empty 23AndMe claim, but somehow he can't be classified as a dwarven lord because... In your head it's a title that's given based on power levels? If that's the case then Gimli immediately trying to destroy the ring shows off his power level as greater than the rest, definitely making him a lord.

And this is already assuming that regular dwarves can be turned into wraiths by the rings of power, which I don't think is true either. If Sauron could control regular dwarves with the rings of power and turn them into wraiths like the kings of men then he wouldn't have taken back all the rings, he would have just given them out to lesser dwarves to make them his minions instead of the ones he initially gave them to. All dwarves simply have a higher resistance and only got greedy from using them.