Yeah..Gimli's a little..hmm. I'm not a dwarfy person. In every book I always like the dwarves less than the humans. (Unless the dwarves add like comic relief)

Gimli would probably be at the bottom of my list too. Mine would go like this:

Legolas

Aragorn

Gandalf

Merry

Frodo

Sam

Boromir

Pippin

Gimli

Its hard to rank the fellowship in the way of likes.

1) Frodo: Obviously the most important character of the book as the ring bearer. Noone carries the weight he does.

2) Sam: Probably the second most important character in the book. It is safe to say if there is no Sam the quest is utterly doomed to failure.

3) Gandalf: My personal favorite and most powerful of the fellowship. He does numerous things to save the fellowship including giving his life.

4) Aragorn is key as well. He must unite the peoples of middle-earth and go into battle to buy time for Frodo on his journy.

5) Legolas: His keen eye and skill with a bow proves quite useful to fend off orcs.

6) Gimli: His battle skills and the unlikely friendship he forms with Legolas is a key mixture to this very large formula.

7) Boromir: The tragic hero in the greatest sense. He fights well and his actual try to take the ring may have pushed the quest down the road it had to take.

8(t) Merry and Pippin while they provide no real advantage in the Fellowship itslef their deeds after it splits rove to be quite important.