Mirabile Dictu! An Actor Who Understands What He's Portraying!

[mstattersall]

I knew I liked John Rhys-Davies for more than just being the world's 
most tossable dwarf. It's refreshing to know that there are a few 
left in Hollywood who aren't so self-absorbed that they are aware of 
what is actually happening in the world. 

On a lighter note, his humor is often priceless. I was watching a 
feature on the making of the "Fellowship of the Ring" game, which 
utilizes the voices of the film actors. He was ad-libbing some 
reactions for Gimli and out of his mouth came, in his rich 
baritone, "Crap! It's a trap!"

ROTFLMAO then, and even now, as I remember.
Ms. Tattersall

> As Viggo Mortensen preaches Peace, Siblinghood, and Other Things 
> Bright and Beautiful, a different theme is invoked in this 
interview 
> with John Rhys-Davies, Gimli in LOTR:
> 
> 
> http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/beard200312170849.asp
> 
> The prophecy made by Rhys-Davies' father in 1955 was earlier issued 
> by Hilaire Belloc in his 1938 book The Great Heresies:
> 
> "It has always seemed to me possible, and even probable, that there 
> would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons 
> would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between the 
> Christian culture and what has been for more than a thousand years 
> its greatest opponent....  The future always comes as a surprise 
but 
> political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial 
> judgment of what that surprise may be.  And for my part I cannot 
but 
> believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of 
> Islam.  Since religion is at the root of all political movements 
and 
> changes and since we have here a very great religion physically 
> paralysed but morally intensely alive, we are in the presence of an 
> unstable equilibrium which cannot remain permanently unstable....
> 
>   - CMC  (be very afraid)