[@akje]Well, the way I like to look at it is this: Alula's moon death beam of orphanage devastation only blinded the ettin, but your midget with a sword he can only swing around haphazardly gutted it like a pig.

There's also the matter of you landing a series of successive hits and controlling the ettin and its actions. I'm by no means criticizing you, it's just that even if the ettin was only a mini-boss, it might need GM approval for you to go Leeroy Jenkins and downright slaughter it.