By most accounts, J. R. R. Tolkien — the author of The Lord of the Rings — was a kind and thoughtful individual. Even when he disliked the work of another creative, such as Frank Herbert’s Dune, he preferred to stay silent on the matter. However, this was not a courtesy that he extended to Walt Disney. Tolkien was never a fan of Disney or his animations, but his animosity truly began with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Much like The Hobbit, which Tolkien published shortly before the film’s release, Snow White involved a large band of Dwarves, or “Dwarfs” as the Disney title spelled it.Tolkien did not watch Snow White when it debuted, but his friend and The Chronicles of Narnia author C. S. Lewis did. Both in his letters and in his nonfiction book A Preface to Paradise Lost, Lewis expressed his distaste for the film. Lewis wanted to know Tolkien’s opinion, so they eventually watched it together, and Tolkien ended up despising it even more than Lewis. Snow White was a beloved film that revolutionized the industry and catapulted Walt Disney Productions to a new level of success, so what did it do to deserve such vitriol from the father of the fantasy genre?To Tolkien, the Dwarves were just one part of a larger issue with Snow White and Disney’s animated films as a whole. Tolkien loved fairy tales, or fairy stories as he preferred to call them; the magic and wonder of old fairy tales were one of his many inspirations for The Lord of the Rings. He felt that Disney’s versions of fairy tales oversimplified the stories and sanitized them for the sake of appealing to a young audience. Indeed, the version of the Snow White story written by the Brothers Grimm was more complicated and significantly darker than Disney’s film.
By most accounts, J. R. R. Tolkien — the author of The Lord of the Rings — was a kind and thoughtful individual. Even when he disliked the work of another creative, such as Frank Herbert‘s Dune, he preferred to stay silent on the matter. However, this was not a courtesy that he extended to Walt Disney. Tolkien was never a fan of Disney or his animations, but his animosity truly began with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Much like The Hobbit, which Tolkien published shortly before the film’s release, Snow White involved a large band of Dwarves, or “Dwarfs” as the Disney title spelled it.
Tolkien did not watch Snow White when it debuted, but his friend and The Chronicles of Narnia author C. S. Lewis did. Both in his letters and in his nonfiction book A Preface to Paradise Lost, Lewis expressed his distaste for the film. Lewis wanted to know Tolkien’s opinion, so they eventually watched it together, and Tolkien ended up despising it even more than Lewis. Snow White was a beloved film that revolutionized the industry and catapulted Walt Disney Productions to a new level of success, so what did it do to deserve such vitriol from the father of the fantasy genre?
To Tolkien, the Dwarves were just one part of a larger issue with Snow White and Disney’s animated films as a whole. Tolkien loved fairy tales, or fairy stories as he preferred to call them; the magic and wonder of old fairy tales were one of his many inspirations for The Lord of the Rings. He felt that Disney’s versions of fairy tales oversimplified the stories and sanitized them for the sake of appealing to a young audience. Indeed, the version of the Snow White story written by the Brothers Grimm was more complicated and significantly darker than Disney’s film.
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