How come "Snow White Disney movie" was so disliked by J.R.R Tolkien and C.S Lewis

[Woah0]

If one really think about it, old images i found of Snow White and dwarves, they kinda look like semi realistic short people. In Norway it would be nisser, or gnomes as they may be known in english speaking countries.

So my guess is, he may have read Prose Edda there is a 19th century illustration of them and they look small and buff, sorta like what Gimli looked like in Bakshi cartoon and Peter Jackson movies of Lord of the Rings.

So whether the depiction is true according to Prose Edda is another case. I havent read it. But what you think?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Dunno about Lewis, but Tolkien hated Disney generally - not just Snow White - because he felt their film adaptations of faery stories stripped them of all meaning. As a philologist who was more than a little familiar with the cultural value of folk tales, he objected to them being infantilized for a mass market (which is why he turned down great walloping wads of cash from Disney for the film rights to his work).

Boru

[Jehanne]

Do we need a new "all about movies" subforum?

[arewethereyet]

Do we need a new "all about movies" subforum?

I'm thinking that "Random Thoughts" might be appropriate.  

Instead we have another poster who thinks every thought vomit needs its own thread.