The First Great Tolkien Epic - Analyzing the Greatest Fairy-Story Ever Written - Welcoming the Dwarves for Dinner
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It is important to remember when one is reading the Hobbit that the same year that the first edition of this amazing fairy-story that Snow White by Disney came out. Where the movie was to have a massive cultural impact upon a great many people (including my beloved mentor Don Bluth), Tolkien took it as an insult rather than a kind of reverent nod to the…