I hope so. I did, after all! And if Gimli was so old when you're from, I'm probably even older. I bet they wouldn't even consider bringing me, if I was that old, not for someplace like this where you're supposed to be nice about touching people. No one would want a grabby old hobbit wanting hugs from everyone.

[Not that he thinks much about when he gets old. He assumes he'll have a wife and a passel of children by then, but that's far off in the future. He's not ready to settle down yet.]