The Snow Queen – Elsa, the Snow Queen from Disney’s Frozen
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Snow_Queen
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Let_it_Snow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_(2013_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_(Frozen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk
Ichabod Crane has found a text, a litany of horrors. He begs you to return the wretched scribbling whence it came. He sends you to the Crypt of Tales. Once inside the Crypt you encounter a fiendish ghoul, The Scriptkeeper. He enjoins you to peruse the fiendish fantasies contained within his script; The Snow Queen in “Let It Snow”, The Shark Principal in “Jaws Well That Ends Well”, and finally the Unforgiving Tree. The first Tale from the Script is “Let It Snow.” Your wizard will fight the Snow Queen and her minions.
In a quaint little hamlet on the northern point of Lemuria is a small fishing village ruled over by an isolationist queen who never leaves her castle. The peasants hardly knew she existed, except for the fact that on the day her sister was engaged to be married, the Queen froze the kingdom and brought snowmen to life. Snow piled up, ice choked the waterways and the benighted villagers could her their Queen singing, “Let the storm rage on! The snow never bothered ME anyway.”
The Snow Queen is a cheating boss. Two of her cheats are “Do you want to battle a snowman?” “Let the storm rage on!”
Frozen is a 2013 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s 1844 fairy tale “The Snow Queen”, it was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee (in her feature directorial debut) and produced by Peter Del Vecho, from a screenplay by Lee, who also conceived the film’s story with Buck and Shane Morris. The film stars the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, and Santino Fontana. It follows Anna, the princess of Arendelle, who sets off on a journey with the iceman Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and the snowman Olaf, to find her estranged sister Elsa after she accidentally traps their kingdom in eternal winter with her icy powers.
Frozen underwent several story treatments before it was commissioned in 2011. Christophe Beck was hired to compose the film’s orchestral score, and Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote the songs.
After its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on November 19, 2013, Frozen had its general theatrical release on November 27. It was praised for its visuals, screenplay, themes, music, and voice acting, and some critics consider it Disney’s best animated film since the studio’s Renaissance era. The film grossed over $1.280 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing animated film until the remake of The Lion King overtook this position in August 2019. It finished its theatrical run as the highest-grossing film of 2013 and the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time. The film’s songs, characters, story, and appeal to a general audience led to it being dubbed a pop culture phenomenon.
The film’s popularity spawned a franchise which includes an animated short in 2015, a 2017 animated featurette and two feature-length sequels—Frozen 2 (2019) and the upcoming Frozen 3 (2027). Among its accolades, it won Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, and two Grammy Awards.
Elsa is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ animated fantasy film Frozen (2013), and later media of the Frozen franchise, including its sequel Frozen II (2019). She is voiced mainly by Idina Menzel, with Eva Bella as a young child and Spencer Ganus as a teenager in Frozen. In Frozen II, young Elsa is voiced by Mattea Conforti (at the start of the film) and Eva Bella (archive audio).
Created by co-writers and directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, Elsa is loosely based on the title character of “The Snow Queen”, a Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. In the Disney film adaptation, she is introduced as a princess in the fictional Scandinavian Kingdom of Arendelle, heiress to the throne and the elder sister of Anna (Kristen Bell). Elsa has the magical ability to create and manipulate ice and snow. She inadvertently sends Arendelle into an eternal winter on the evening of her coronation. Throughout the film, she struggles first with controlling and concealing her abilities and then with liberating herself from her fears of unintentionally harming others, especially her younger sister.
The Snow Queen character, neutral but cold-hearted in the original fairytale and villain in numerous adaptations of the character, proved difficult to adapt to film due to her transparent depiction. Several film executives, including Walt Disney, attempted to build on the character, and a number of scheduled film adaptations were shelved when they could not work out the character. Buck and his co-director, Jennifer Lee, were ultimately able to solve the dilemma by depicting Elsa and Anna as sisters. As much as Anna’s struggle is external, Elsa’s is internal. This led to Elsa being gradually rewritten as a sympathetic, misunderstood character.
Elsa has received largely positive reception from reviewers, who praised her complex characterization and vulnerability. Menzel was also widely praised for her vocal performance of Elsa, especially that of her performance of the song “Let It Go”.
“Let It Go” is a song from Disney’s 2013 computer-animated feature film Frozen, whose music and lyrics were composed by husband-and-wife songwriting team Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. The song was performed in its original show-tune version in the film by American actress and singer Idina Menzel in her vocal role as Queen Elsa. It was later released as a single, being promoted to adult contemporary radio by Walt Disney Records in January 2014.
The song was a commercial success, becoming the first song from a Disney animated musical to reach the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 since 1995, when Vanessa L. Williams’s “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas peaked at number four on the chart. The song is also Menzel’s first single to reach the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making her the first Tony Award winner for acting to ever reach the top 10. The song was the ninth-best-selling song of 2014 in the United States, with 3.37 million copies sold in that year. As of December 2014, the song had sold 3.5 million copies in the US.
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