Editing Dwarves in Middle-earth (section)

=== Films ===

[[File:Bakshi Gimli.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gimli (Middle-earth)|Gimli]] in [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s [[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|''The Lord of the Rings'']] (1978) voiced by [[David Buck]]]]

In [[Rankin-Bass]]' [[The Hobbit (1977 film)|1977 animated film adaptation]] of ''The Hobbit'', Thorin was voiced by [[Hans Conreid]], with [[Don Messick]] voicing [[Balin (Middle-earth)|Balin]], [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]] voicing [[Dori (Middle-earth)|Dori]], [[Jack DeLeon]] voicing [[Dwalin]], [[Fíli]], [[Kíli]], [[Óin, son of Gróin|Óin]], [[Glóin]], [[Ori (Middle-earth)|Ori]], [[Nori (Middle-earth)|Nori]], [[Bifur]], and [[Bofur]], and [[Paul Frees]] voicing [[Bombur (Middle-earth)|Bombur]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/movies/The-Hobbit/ |title=The Hobbit (1977 Movie) |website=Behind the Voice Actors |access-date=June 17, 2022}}</ref>

In [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s 1978 animated film [[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|''The Lord of the Rings'']], the part of the Dwarf [[Gimli (Middle-earth)|Gimli]] was voiced by [[David Buck]].<ref name="Beck2005">{{cite book |last=Beck |first=Jerry |title=The Animated Movie Guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fTI1yeZd-tkC&pg=PA154 |year=2005 |publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]] |location=Chicago, Illinois|isbn=978-1-56976-222-6 |page=154}}</ref>

In [[Peter Jackson]]'s [[live action]] adaptation of [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy]], Gimli's character is from time to time used as comic relief, whether with jokes about his height or his rivalry with the elf [[Legolas]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Flieger |first=Verlyn |author-link=Verlyn Flieger |chapter=Sometimes One Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures |editor1-last=Bogstad |editor1-first=Janice M. |editor2-last=Kaveny |editor2-first=Philip E. |title=[[Picturing Tolkien]] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNjKrXRP0G8C&pg=PA71 |year=2011 |publisher=[[McFarland (publisher)|McFarland]] |location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=978-0-7864-8473-7 |page=48}}</ref><ref name="croft">{{cite web |last=Croft |first=Janet Brennan |author-link=Janet Brennan Croft |url=http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/C/Janet.B.Croft-1/anticipationandflattening.htm |title=The Mines of Moria: 'Anticipation' and 'Flattening' in Peter Jackson's ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' |date=February 2003 |work=Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque |publisher=[[University of Oklahoma]] |location=Norman, Oklahoma|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031065417/http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/C/Janet.B.Croft-1/anticipationandflattening.htm |archive-date=October 31, 2011}}</ref> Gimli is played by [[John Rhys-Davies]], who gave the character a "Welsh-derived" accent.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sibley |first=Brian |author-link=Brian Sibley |title=The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Official Movie Guide |date=2013 |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X_YUAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 |isbn=978-0007498079 |page=27 |quote=John Rhys-Davies' distinctive Welsh-derived accent for Gimli was adopted by New Zealanders John Callen and Peter Hambleton in portraying characters who are Gimli's father [Gloin] and uncle [Oin].}}</ref>

In Jackson's [[The Hobbit (film trilogy)|three-film adaptation]] of ''The Hobbit'', Thorin is portrayed by [[Richard Armitage (actor)|Richard Armitage]], with [[Ken Stott]] as Balin, [[Graham McTavish]] as Dwalin, [[Aidan Turner]] as Kíli, [[Dean O'Gorman]] as Fíli, [[Mark Hadlow]] as Dori, [[Jed Brophy]] as Nori, [[Adam Brown (actor)|Adam Brown]] as Ori, [[John Callen]] as Óin, [[Peter Hambleton]] as Glóin, [[William Kircher]] as Bifur, [[James Nesbitt]] as Bofur, and [[Stephen Hunter]] as Bombur. Jackson's films introduce a story arc not found in the original novel, in which Kili and the Elf [[Tauriel]] (a character also invented for the films) fall in love.<ref>{{cite web |first=Andrew |last=Sims |title='The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug': First look at Evangeline Lilly as new character Tauriel  |date=5 June 2013 |website=Hypable |url=http://www.hypable.com/2013/06/05/the-hobbit-2-desolation-of-smaug-evangeline-lilly-tauriel/ |access-date=20 August 2013}}</ref>