[Laialthriel]

When you watch the behind-the-scenes in FotR, I believe it is Dom who is talking about John's fighting scenes. He comments on the fact previously mentioned; that John has the prosthetics all over his face and it limits his vision to basically directly ahead, so that in itself would be a little hard to fight with. Then he's got the hair, the helmet, and the body armor to get in the way. Not the most ideal battling conditions. <P>Dom also comments on the fact that John didn't really even <I>try</I> to miss the orc actors...he just swung! (I love this guy!) So that might account for the 'chopping' instead of slicing. I admit I did stop to ponder his battle sceness realism. But I think it just added to the character of Gimli. Like Phillipa said, 'If you want to know what a Dwarf was like, you cast John Rhys-Davies as Gimli. He'll <I>show</I> you.'<P><BR>~*Laialthriel*~