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Gruesome Spectre
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I'm sure others can elucidate, but there are indications he didn't like Disney's style of animation, for one thing. When discussing proposed illustrations of a German edition of The Hobbit, he criticized them as being
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He seems to think "Disnification' to be a debasement of his work. Oddly, in my opinion, Peter Jackson could be guilty of similar sins. ![]() In Letters # 234 he said the story of the Pied Piper was a "terrible presage of the most vulgar elements in Disney". Vulgar has many meanings, but the two I think most likely to be relevant are: 1. crude; coarse; unrefined: a vulgar peasant, and 2. current; popular; common: a vulgar success; vulgar beliefs. So he seems to have thought Disney an embodiment of crudeness and the "modern" fairy-tale he had no time for.
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