Getting along with Gimli would have been easy for the Elf mage, if he would just acknowledge the dwarf. Gimli saw the Elf's silence as a slight and began to heap insults on all Elves. While the Star of Earendil had infinite patience, Aragorn who was raised in the House of Elrond did not. On more than one occasion, Gandalf had noticed the Man's hand tightly gripping the hilt of Anduril after one of Gimli's more crude comments.