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1For those who don't want to read the wall of text: No, Gimli left Middle Earth together with Legolas and sailed west, to Valinor.– Adam AroldCommented Dec 26, 2023 at 19:30
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15@AdamArold - 5 well-formatted paragraphs is hardly a wall of text, and the fact that he left Middle-earth doesn't necessarily mean that he did or didn't have kids– ValorumCommented Dec 26, 2023 at 19:36
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2We cannot conclude from the information we have (and which you have kindly repeated in your answer) that Gimli did not marry or have children after he went to Valinor. As far as I understand it is possible to marry and have children in Valinor.– user169166Commented Dec 27, 2023 at 13:19
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2@Ben - And while that's true, at this point you're indulging in fanfiction.– ValorumCommented Dec 27, 2023 at 13:46
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5Could you please for a brief moment consider that we don't in fact "get a p[l]otted history of the remainder of [Gimli's] life in Appendix III", but that Gimli lives on after that last testimonial of him for an unspecified period of time and that a lot of things might have happened after he was lost from recorded history. I don't deny that it is unlikely that Tolkien meant for Gimli to marry and have children, but I do deny that you know with the certainty expressed in your answer that he didn't.– user169166Commented Dec 27, 2023 at 15:47
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