Gimli

Gimli is a fictional character in Tolkien's Middle-earth who appears in The Lord of the Rings. He is the son of Glóin, a dwarf warrior who served in Thorin's company in Tolkien's earlier book The Hobbit. Gimli is chosen to represent the Dwarves in the Fellowship of the Ring. As such, he is one of the novel's main characters. Throughout the adventure, Gimli assists the Ring-bearer Frodo Baggins, takes part in the War of the Ring, and becomes close friends with Legolas, overcoming an ancient Dwarven-Elven enmity.

Gimli possessed the brawn and stamina typical of his race as a Dwarf. He was said to be able to carry the weight of his armor like it was nothing, and he ran 45 leagues in less than four days with only a few hours of sleep with Aragorn and Legolas. He was unquestionably a powerful warrior and skilled axe wielder who had survived numerous encounters with Sauron's forces. Gimli, like most Dwarves, preferred the axe and carried several variations of the weapon with him on his travels. At the beginning of his journey, Gimil was already equipped with a long-handled axe which doubled as a walking stick, to ease the strain of long walks through the vast grasslands of Middle-earth, a value to the heavily clad Dwarf.