\nDwarfs ought to be ugly of course, but not in that way. And the dwarfs\u2019 jazz party was pretty bad. I suppose it never occurred to the poor boob that you could give them any other kind of music. But all the terrifying bits were good, and the animals really most moving: and the use of shadows (of dwarfs and vultures) was real genius. What might not have come of it if this man had been educated\u2013or even brought up in a decent society?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
In another instance, Lewis called the evil queen\u2019s design unoriginal, and described the dwarves as having, \u201cbloated, drunken, low comedy faces.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nTolkien didn\u2019t like the goofball dwarfs either. The Tolkien Companion<\/em> notes that he found Snow White lovely, but otherwise wasn\u2019t pleased with the dwarves. To both Tolkien and Lewis, it seemed, Disney\u2019s dwarves were a gross simplification of a concept they held as precious. \u201cI think it grated on them that he was commercializing something that they considered almost sacrosanct,\u201d says Trish Lambert, a Tolkien scholar and author of the essay, Snow White and Bilbo Baggins: Divergences and Convergences Between Disney and Tolkien<\/em>. \u201cHere you have a brash, American entrepreneur who had the audacity to go in and make money off of fairy tales.\u201d<\/figure>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Or, more precisely, Tolkien and Lewis vs. Disney. In a 1939 letter to his friend A.K. Hamilton, Lewis wrote of Snow White (and Disney himself): Dwarfs ought to be ugly of course, but not in that way. And the dwarfs\u2019 jazz party was pretty bad. I suppose it never occurred to the poor boob that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,230],"class_list":["post-100055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lewisiana","tag-tolkiena"],"yoast_head":"\n
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