MISAPPREHENSION:

Most of the Fellowship would have gladly hit Pippin if they could, but circumstances being what they were....

GIMLI: Oh! Sunlight! I see sunlight! In that chamber! Chase the sunlight! Sweet sunlight!

Gimli ran toward a side chamber. Gandalf cast a look at the receeding sound of Gimli's voice, a look which, had it been visible, would haev plainly shown the wizard's fear for the dwarf's sanity.

GANDALF: Gimlet!

FELLOWSHIP: Gimlet?

GANDALF: I mean Gimpli!

FELLOWSHIP: Gimpli?

GANDALF: Oh whatever.

All of a sudden there was a deafening howl.

FELLOWSHIP: Save him!

The Fellowship rushed forward into the chamber. They found Gimli doing a Dwarvish death dance around a large tomb.

BOROMIR: Hey! A tomb inside a tomb!

TROTTER: Yeah! That's fun—

BOROMIR: Bwaha—No, it's not. Can't you see poor Gimli is distraught...OMG!

TROTTER: What?

BOROMIR: He's gonna kill himself with that arrow! Stop him!

LEGOLAS: Why? If he wants to kill himself that's his business.

TROTTER: Gimli! Don't do it! The Fellowship needs you! Don't desert your duty to Middle-earth!

FRODO/MERRY/PIPPIN/SAM/BOROMIR: Bravo! From now on we shall call you Aragorn!

ARAGORN (encouraged): Stop, Gimli! I will make you steward of many realms!

GIMLI: What are you screaming about? Is there something wrong with collecting arrowheads?

Gimli dropped an arrowhead into his pack gleefully.

There was a glaring silence. Eventually Boromir put his usual question to the usual person.

BOROMIR: Gandalf, what does the tomb's inscription say?

GIMLI: Those are runes we learn in the first grade! Whatever do you Gondorians do at school?

BOROMIR: First grade was a long time ago.

GANDALF: It reads: Hereth lieth Balineth, Soneth ofeth Fundineth, Lordeth ofeth Moria.

LEGOLAS: Moria. That was my ex—

FELLOWSHIP: Don't you DARE, Legolas!

GANDALF: He is dead then.

GLARWENOLAS: Yeah. It's kind of OBVIOUS!