<story><title>Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/j-r-r-tolkien-expressed-a-heartfelt-loathing-for-walt-disney.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>user982</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the rest of that sentence, but this really isn&amp;#x27;t true. Disney&amp;#x27;s bowdlerized versions actually do harm and even displace the source material in public consciousness.</text></item><item><author>ardent_uno</author><text>Why should he not make money off fairy tales? By making money he built a company which has brought joy to millions of people over a near century, employed thousands and created value all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him. It&amp;#x27;s a classic win-win.</text></item><item><author>jedwhite</author><text>The Atlas Obscura article linked at the end has some other interesting quotes, including another one from Tolkien Scholar, Trish Lambert, that “Here you have a brash, American entrepreneur who had the audacity to go in and make money off of fairy tales.”&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.atlasobscura.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;tolkien-cs-lewis-disney-snow-white-narnia-hobbit-dwarves&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.atlasobscura.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;tolkien-cs-lewis-disne...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmckeon</author><text>For the non-Disney versions, try:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Complete-Grimms-Fairy-Tales&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;0394709306&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Complete-Grimms-Fairy-Tales&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;039470...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spoiler &amp;amp; trigger alert - the princess discovers
the true nature of the Frog Prince not with a kiss,
but by flinging him against a wall.  Many of the other
stories are equally blunt, forceful, or realistic
for the times they came from.&lt;p&gt;Of note is the modern excision of the last phrase
from the closing formula:
&amp;quot;And they all lived happily ever after until they died.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/j-r-r-tolkien-expressed-a-heartfelt-loathing-for-walt-disney.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>user982</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the rest of that sentence, but this really isn&amp;#x27;t true. Disney&amp;#x27;s bowdlerized versions actually do harm and even displace the source material in public consciousness.</text></item><item><author>ardent_uno</author><text>Why should he not make money off fairy tales? By making money he built a company which has brought joy to millions of people over a near century, employed thousands and created value all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him. It&amp;#x27;s a classic win-win.</text></item><item><author>jedwhite</author><text>The Atlas Obscura article linked at the end has some other interesting quotes, including another one from Tolkien Scholar, Trish Lambert, that “Here you have a brash, American entrepreneur who had the audacity to go in and make money off of fairy tales.”&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.atlasobscura.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;tolkien-cs-lewis-disney-snow-white-narnia-hobbit-dwarves&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.atlasobscura.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;tolkien-cs-lewis-disne...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pphysch</author><text>To be fair though, once you undermine this clause, the rest of the comment can be applied to almost any enterprise: illegal drugs, weapons, or almost any other harmful industry.</text></comment>