#rewatching the movies and also reading the first book again and I am fully ensconced

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Yesterday I discovered the story of Gimli’s stunt double, Brett Beattie, who did a LOT of the heavy lifting but did not get nearly enough credit. The actor who played Gimli, John Rhys-Davies, is over 6 feet tall. His stunt double/body double is in many of the scenes where you see Gimli’s whole body. 

“With the encouragement of his seasoned movie star cast members, Beattie, who did not have an agent or any movie business experience, asked to get a screen credit befitting the amount of time and effort he’d put into Gimli. The producers agreed, saying that he was going to be listed in the credits as Gimli’s stunt, scale, and photo double. But a week later, he says, he was told that he actually couldn’t be given the screen credit, due to “movie politics’’ and “concerns about preserving the illusion that is Gimli.” Beattie is listed in the credits, but just as a stunt performer.“