snowwhite and the 7 dwarves ? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

charly · 09-15-2002, 02:22 PM

Umm, to everybody here... you´re getting something MIXED UP. I don´t want to be the total know-all but... Snow-white does exist as a grimm fairy tale! The story is pretty the same as in the disney movie... the dwarves do NOT have names though(duh).
Snow-white and Rose-red is a very DIFFERENT fairytale. Even though it´s the same names, it´s a very different story- with, as a matter of fact a very different orgin. I just wanted to make things clearer-sorry if it annoyed you.
Seven dwarves... good thinking! Ummm, see i read this thing that tolkien originally wanted six dwarves -and rings-, to have a pattern. 9 ring for men, 6 for dwarwes, 3 for elves... get it? Maybe he changed it ´cause people were getting so used to "seven dwarwes " by now. But maybe he did take the seven dwarves idea from snow-white- without wanting to! Maybe he read the fairy-tale and then-years later- wrote about seven dwarwes in middle-earth. The idea at stayed in the back of his mind and then, pushed itself foreward- like an own thought. That does happen, you know.

09-15-2002, 02:22 PM	#15
charly Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: middle earth, dork Posts: 84	Umm, to everybody here... you´re getting something MIXED UP. I don´t want to be the total know-all but... Snow-white does exist as a grimm fairy tale! The story is pretty the same as in the disney movie... the dwarves do NOT have names though(duh). Snow-white and Rose-red is a very DIFFERENT fairytale. Even though it´s the same names, it´s a very different story- with, as a matter of fact a very different orgin. I just wanted to make things clearer-sorry if it annoyed you. Seven dwarves... good thinking! Ummm, see i read this thing that tolkien originally wanted six dwarves -and rings-, to have a pattern. 9 ring for men, 6 for dwarwes, 3 for elves... get it? Maybe he changed it ´cause people were getting so used to "seven dwarwes " by now. But maybe he did take the seven dwarves idea from snow-white- without wanting to! Maybe he read the fairy-tale and then-years later- wrote about seven dwarwes in middle-earth. The idea at stayed in the back of his mind and then, pushed itself foreward- like an own thought. That does happen, you know. __________________ "Whom do you serve, scum?"