/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.677360]

>Buy Grimm's fairy tales
>Realize that the unnamed stories you remember your mother told you when you were younger came from them.
>Tell a friend about it
>They tell you that they didn't even realize that the stories were originally theirs and not Disney's.
>My face

[Anonymous No.677364]

Disney was fairytale.

[Anonymous No.677367]

Oh shit don't get me started on this kind of thing. Apparently Square Enix invented fucking Odin

[Anonymous No.677371]

I had one of these moments too OP...
people get pissed when they realise the original stories are not so pretty happy. damn Disney's what have you done??!!!

[Anonymous No.677378]

Technically, they're not originally Grimms', either. The Brothers Grimm collected and edited stories people had been telling for generations. They wrote nothing of their own.

[Anonymous No.677392]

I was brought up with the original fairy tales, it gave me a loathing of watered down Disney's adaptations

[Anonymous No.677408]

Isn't walt disney's frozen corpse locking in the disney vault?

[Anonymous No.677425]

OP here, and it was really the fact that they didn't know that made me "wtf?". It made me wonder what kind of life they could have led, and why the fuck I'm even talking to them.

[Anonymous No.677429]

Taking this as an opportunity to greentext.

>go to bookstore
>ask for bukowski
>"is that the guy who wrote master and margarita?"
>my face

[Anonymous No.677432]

>>677425
I do know what you mean
It's the same with film and video games too. I bet there are idiots out there who think Beowulf is simply a movie that came out 2 years ago that ripped off the LOTR films.

[orangekun No.677439]

The Brother's Grimm just pretty much wrote down all the stories that have been told for ages...

[Anonymous No.677441]

>>677429
Wasn't Bukowski american and Bulgakov russian?

[Anonymous No.677443]

>>677439
Well someone had to.
Or well, they didn't really... I'm glad they did though

[Anonymous No.677449]

>>677432
OP here, and I'm sure that people aren't that stupid...

[Anonymous No.677446]

>>677429
this didn't happen.

[Anonymous No.677459]

>>677449
They are that stupid. Many of them are worse.

[Anonymous No.677462]

>>677449

believe me , they are.

[Anonymous No.677463]

>>677459
Please, just let me have faith in humanity.

inb4> faith in humanity >4chan

[Anonymous No.677465]

>>677449
Maybe not. I know that when I used to play an MMO (FFXI), a depresslingly small amount of people knew the true origins of Fenrir, Odin, Leviathan, Titan, etc...

I actually even knew some people who (granted, they read the books at least) thought Tolkien invented Elves.

[Anonymous No.677471]

>>677465
>thought Tolkien invented Elves.

[Anonymous No.677503]

I remember being shocked by some of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Like the one about the woman who ends up becoming betrothed to a cannibalistic murderer('The Robber Bridgegroom', it even has a nice description of a nubile young woman being stripped, dismembered, and eaten).

[Anonymous No.677508]

>>677503
I liked that one. I remember my mother reading it to me....

[Anonymous No.677542]

Rumpelstiltskin originally tore himself in half after she guessed his name.

That was the version my primary school teacher told us. We thought nothing of it at the time, but now I realie my teacher was fucking badass.

[Anonymous No.677543]

>>677508

And how about that other one, 'The Poor Boy in the Grave', about the boy who's parents die, and he has to live with his abusive aunt and uncle to under-feed him, and he ends up killing himself?

[Anonymous No.677547]

>>677465

Wasn't tolkien the first notable author to portray them as beautiful and noble rather than evil enchanter types though?

[Anonymous No.677557]

>>677542
Grrrrr.... those bad ass teachers you never appreciated. Hate myself sometimes

[Anonymous No.677577]

>>677543
No, she hadn't read that one to me. I remember my favorite one had been "The Golden Bird".

[Anonymous No.677634]

>>677542
I wish my teachers had been that badass.