Gimli is a fictional fantasy character.
In the fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien , the Dwarves are a race inhabiting Middle-earth , the central continent of Earth in an imagined mythological past . Gimli is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth legendarium , featured in The Lord of the Rings . The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien .