Timeline for How did Gimli know Elvish?
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| Sep 19, 2016 at 17:27 | comment | added | LeHill | 6. Gimli knows Elvish as do many Dwarves. See this post about the password to the Mines of Moria being in Elvish: movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1442/… | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 22:24 | comment | added | PiousVenom | @HussainTamboli: At the point of the Battle of Helms Deep, Gimli and Legolas were already very close friends. So it is very possible he'd have learned it from Legolas or strategy meetings. Also, it's Aragorn, not Eragon. Wrong book. | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 14:04 | comment | added | Hussain Tamboli | thanks @ChristianRau you give really through explaination | |
| Oct 20, 2012 at 13:20 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson | @Origin It may be possible. But even if the dwarven language was not worked out as accurately as the two elven languages the few examples shown throughout the books suggest that those languages are very different. But I may just have overseen something or might not remember everything. | |
| Oct 20, 2012 at 10:26 | comment | added | Hussain Tamboli | great link. thanks. I haven't read the books, seen movies lot of times though. Great stuff the link has. | |
| Oct 20, 2012 at 10:08 | comment | added | Origin | I have no idea if ladders sounds similar in both languages but it could be. Both races are similar in age and have not always hated each other. Some words might have crossed over in the time they were still working together (see this for their relationship). As for Gimli, by the time they are in Helm's Deep, he and legolas are already friends. | |
| Oct 20, 2012 at 9:37 | comment | added | Hussain Tamboli |
all right. +1. is point 1 really true? also elves came to help Rohan just before the battle they wouldn't have discussed about Elvish in battle strategy. Gimli hated elves, so he wouldn't have learned Elvish from Legolas. He must've heard it from Eragon. right
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| Oct 20, 2012 at 9:17 | history | answered | Origin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |