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TIL J.R.R. Tolkien loathed Walt Disney, seeing his work as corrupt, deceptive commercialism. Disney films nauseated him, and he saw Snow White as a vulgar mockery of mythology. He refused to let Disney adapt The Lord of the Rings.

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