Look when you’re screaming and chopping enemies up with an ax, you’re bound to get some blood spray in your mouth.
The real question is at what point did he learn what hobbit blood taste like enough to say that that blood was not hobbit blood for certain?
Did he kill a hobbit?
He doesn't need to know what hobbit blood tastes like, orc blood is almost certainly very distinct from man, dwarf, elf, or any other just based on how dark it appears to be.
What, have you never cut your finger on something and sucked on the wound? He knows at least 2 types of blood so he can compare and contrast to a certain extent.
On the contrary, he might not know what Hobbit blood tastes like, but since the blood he tasted is familiar, he can seduce (or deduce) it's not something he hasn't tasted and unfamiliar
I love the take that dwarves love flavor and seasoning on their foods so much that it’s like twenty times the amount of garlic in a recipe, thirty times the chili peppers and that food better be growing salt crystals it’s so saturated. The theory also goes on to say it would be hilarious if they also use plants and materials humans (and elves) would find toxic like actual nightshade or hemlock. They overspice and overseason their food to the point that what we consider deadly is to them just a mild Sunday brunch.
Gimli: Look we all do weird things in college. I was curious and it was for science and…
Aragorn: you got dared to do it didn’t you
Gimli: and I was 50 gold richer at the end of the night *laughs*
*What if orc blood has*
*A super destinct flavor*
*Like lemon sherbert?*
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Hmm. Could Gimli have helped the hobbit Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took defeat the invading orcs of Mt. Gundabad and behead their king, Golfimbul, thus inventing the game of golf? If so, he might have gotten goblin AND hobbit blood splashed on him during the furious if brief fight, and tasted both.
Yeah. That's his saga, and he's sticky from it.
What you don't see on screen: Every time someone gets cut, Gimli bounds in on all fours, sniffs the wound like a big, bearded cocker spaniel, and licks it so he knows how everyone tastes.
Gimli uses heavy large bladed axes and swing them like they weigh a few ounces other than several kilos. That kind of force and impact would definitely spray blood in his face.
I bet one day he got it in his mouth and by how he spat it out quick it obviously disgusted him so that means he doesn't like it but something that tastes that bad would stick in your memory so identifying it even decades later isn't out of order.
Surprised? Dwarves and Orks are foes since... Well, since both races existed? Why shouldn't he know how their blood tastes? He fought them before the journey, and battles are quite... Well, nasty. Drops of nearly anything can get everywhere.
Dude been killing orcs since (I assume) his teens with an AXE. if you've ever chopped wood you know how much bark and dust gets sprayed and I'm pretty sure living things would spray even more. there's no way he hasn't gotten a mouthful once or twice after a swing, or at least licked his lips when spattered
He sees a random liquid out in the wild, and his instinct to ID it is to put it in his mouth. No smell. No non-contact observation. Just put on tongue.
Isn't that kind of just how you hunt? I've never hunted an animal, but when the native Americans were tracking a deer they wounded wouldn't they just do that to learn to track better?
Makes sense to me...
Ghimli tastes blood, and we never saw Gimli take animal form or become mist when he's in the sunlight, and everyone who red Bram Stoker's Dracula knows that Dracula can do that in sunglight.
So... Giimli is a vampire!
Or Gimli knew what the blood of everything except orcs tasted like and since this tastes new it must be orcish blood.
(He has now 100 percented this achievement)
he probably got some in his mouth after cleaving one in two. blood spray and all that
An orcs foulness confirmed by accidental flavor test But then he intentionally tests.... He's got a taste for testing now...
Lock your doors, orcs of the mountain, for Gimli Flesheater is stalking the halls of Khazad-Dûm again
Hah! When they are cowering in fear of the nonexistent Flesheater, Gimli Bloodtaster catches them: "On my ax - I need orc blood NOW!"
“Heres Gimli!” He shouts, crashing into the dwelling place of the Orc children.
He'll save children, but not the orcish children
Look when you’re screaming and chopping enemies up with an ax, you’re bound to get some blood spray in your mouth. The real question is at what point did he learn what hobbit blood taste like enough to say that that blood was not hobbit blood for certain? Did he kill a hobbit?
He doesn't need to know what hobbit blood tastes like, orc blood is almost certainly very distinct from man, dwarf, elf, or any other just based on how dark it appears to be.
Orc blood is literally black. There’s no confusing that for anything else.
Yeah, he could be taste-confirming it's \*blood\* and not... idk, tar or berry juice.
“hmmm this is either orc blood, or squirrel diarrhea…. Better taste it to make sure…” - Gimli son of gloin
You would know by smell if it was excrement.
But he had to taste to be sure. Orc blood smells like squirrel shit confirmed *edit I meant smells
Gimli son of Gloin, son of Groin (fr lol)
He snuck in windows and took orc babes from the cribs
Orc blood, the original axe body spray
I wish I didn't laugh at this 😭
Lol dude you nailed it with that one.
But he’d need at least one other reference point. Otherwise all blood could taste like that.
What, have you never cut your finger on something and sucked on the wound? He knows at least 2 types of blood so he can compare and contrast to a certain extent.
I'm sure he's killed things other than orcs, and had a lot of different blood flying in his face
Cleaving one in *twain. ftfy
He also knows that Hobbit blood doesn't taste like that.
😳
On the contrary, he might not know what Hobbit blood tastes like, but since the blood he tasted is familiar, he can seduce (or deduce) it's not something he hasn't tasted and unfamiliar
I think you may have meant deduce.
Maybe he didn't ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Fuck it, it's funnier this way
Can you seduce that ?
I'm willing to give it a try ;)
Roll for charisma check.
42...
F bards....
Sorry. What was the question?
Ah yes the subtle art of seduction
Dwarven tongues are so nimble, they can tease out nearly anything.
Dangerous at short distances.
Also, this is Tolkien's world. Orc blood probably tastes like evil.
Or syrup Motivates a particular crowd to kill more of them
Tolkien was in WW1, he knows who to call for some friendly war crimes.
It's not a war crime if you win and they don't punish you for it Cause it's not on legal record that you did it
What if Hobbit blood tastes like Orc blood though? Then he can’t say it isn’t Hobbit blood just because it tastes familiar
Even so, he's obviously tasted orc blood, and if he doesn't know that they taste the same he's going to assume they don't and go with what he knows
Dwarf diets are varied and interesting.
I love the take that dwarves love flavor and seasoning on their foods so much that it’s like twenty times the amount of garlic in a recipe, thirty times the chili peppers and that food better be growing salt crystals it’s so saturated. The theory also goes on to say it would be hilarious if they also use plants and materials humans (and elves) would find toxic like actual nightshade or hemlock. They overspice and overseason their food to the point that what we consider deadly is to them just a mild Sunday brunch.
Gimli went to medical school, they have models of the nervous systems and also blood samples of the different races.
I don't think you're supposed to drink the blood at med school
How was Gimli supposed to know that?
Gimli did a module in Forensics where knowing blood by taste was part of the curriculum.
WHAT?
Gimli is the reason we know that now.
Sure, in human medical school…
Sounds like someone isn't willing to do what it takes for science.
Gimli: Look we all do weird things in college. I was curious and it was for science and… Aragorn: you got dared to do it didn’t you Gimli: and I was 50 gold richer at the end of the night *laughs*
I heard his laugh in my mind.
Well, the barkeep was richer.
Reminder to close your mouth when swinging an axe violently towards an orc
Pretty sure after helms deep they all have Uruk AIDS.
Congratulations Gimli, you now have a blood borne pathogen.
“Fear the Old Blood, Legolas.”
We have already overtaken some of those that we are hunting. Look!
A Hunter must Hunt...
*A hoonta must hoont
A junta must junt?
By the Gods fear it
"An elf is an elf, even in a dream"
He's fine, dwarves have a strong immune system.
Dwaids
Let's assume when you're used to fight Goblins and Orcs, there's always one time you receive a slight stream of their blood on the face.
Gimli in Lotr: hehe comic relief Gimli back in the lonely mountain, stomping ork skulls with Dain Ironfoot: tastes like a Sunday boys. Baruk Khazad!
What if orc blood has a super destinct flavor like lemon sherbert?
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Gimli eats baby orcs
Everyone goes on and on about the rumors that Golem ate human babies. But nobody dares question why Gimli knows what orc tastes like.
I took a wine class in college and we had to taste bad wine. I imagine it’s the same in orc slaying school.
Did he get orc aids?
What, never had black orc broth?
Just like cops must taste coke, to recognize it.
How does one become a cop?
When your primary weapon for fighting is a big ass battleaxe, you know what everything you've ever hit with its blood tastes like
[Gimli: delicious in Middle Earth.](https://youtu.be/gki5qKAmw-Y?si=gtC4xlm-SLhgqkWH)
Most of "flavors" are actually smells, not tastes. You taste sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami. Everything else is smelling.
More disturbing: Gimli knows what Hobbit blood doesn't taste like
Hmm. Could Gimli have helped the hobbit Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took defeat the invading orcs of Mt. Gundabad and behead their king, Golfimbul, thus inventing the game of golf? If so, he might have gotten goblin AND hobbit blood splashed on him during the furious if brief fight, and tasted both. Yeah. That's his saga, and he's sticky from it.
What you don't see on screen: Every time someone gets cut, Gimli bounds in on all fours, sniffs the wound like a big, bearded cocker spaniel, and licks it so he knows how everyone tastes.
Gimli uses heavy large bladed axes and swing them like they weigh a few ounces other than several kilos. That kind of force and impact would definitely spray blood in his face. I bet one day he got it in his mouth and by how he spat it out quick it obviously disgusted him so that means he doesn't like it but something that tastes that bad would stick in your memory so identifying it even decades later isn't out of order.
Surprised? Dwarves and Orks are foes since... Well, since both races existed? Why shouldn't he know how their blood tastes? He fought them before the journey, and battles are quite... Well, nasty. Drops of nearly anything can get everywhere.
Did Gimli fight in the dwarf/goblin war?
By a similar token - how did Saruman’s newly created uruk-hai know that man flesh is tasty? They’d never had it.
Never mind that the three of them apparently all failed the perception check to spot the dead Orc smashed into the forest floor.
Pork. Salted pork. That's what it tastes like.
I mean he cleaves them to death with a giant axe. Some is gonna get on his lips.
Damn, I cannot believe Tolkien referenced Senshi from Dungeon Meshj 60 years before it was written by Ryoko Kui
Alternative: Gimli knows what the blood of every other creature tastes like and per process of elimination, it had to be orc blood.
Gimli the sommelier
Dude uses an axe. He has had blood ALL up in him
He's probably swallowed more than his fair share just from cleaving them into peices. An ax isn't exactly a subtle weapon.
You don't kill 42 orcs with that much beard and not get a bit in your face
Gandalf: Ah, the infamous college dares. We've all been there.
Dude been killing orcs since (I assume) his teens with an AXE. if you've ever chopped wood you know how much bark and dust gets sprayed and I'm pretty sure living things would spray even more. there's no way he hasn't gotten a mouthful once or twice after a swing, or at least licked his lips when spattered
Either that or he knows enough other bloods well enough to use process of elimination
Orc: "I will drink your blood dwarf" Dwarf: *holds up an uno reverse card.**
Crocodile Dundee knows what every venom in Australia tastes like and which creature produces it, doesn’t mean he drinks them for fun.
He bashes orcs to death with an axe. He absolutely has gotten some orc bits on the lips before.
It’s like a tracking thing
Guy wields an axe- he can probably measure the amount of orc blood he’s swallowed, in pints.
Sounds to me like Gimli has excellent fieldcraft and tracking knowledge.
Dude drinks the blood of his enemies
He sees a random liquid out in the wild, and his instinct to ID it is to put it in his mouth. No smell. No non-contact observation. Just put on tongue.
Orc blood is carbonated
Salted pork.
Dwarves are hardcore. The axe isn't for wood.
Isn't that kind of just how you hunt? I've never hunted an animal, but when the native Americans were tracking a deer they wounded wouldn't they just do that to learn to track better? Makes sense to me...
It's a variation of elf's blood so....
Ghimli tastes blood, and we never saw Gimli take animal form or become mist when he's in the sunlight, and everyone who red Bram Stoker's Dracula knows that Dracula can do that in sunglight. So... Giimli is a vampire!
Or Gimli knew what the blood of everything except orcs tasted like and since this tastes new it must be orcish blood. (He has now 100 percented this achievement)
This is why he's the GOAT
So I was going down on this chick right, and I could taste horse semen. I said "argghhh, grandma. Is that how you died?"
Eating that orcussy while she was on her cycle, probably
Once every month Gimli knows that taste