Hans Christian Anderson also wrote The Snow Queen (i.e. Frozen) and "The Ugly Duckling." As you can tell, he had a very difficult time fitting in with the world.. so many stories on isolation, finding power, making friends with a different world, a hostile society.
Also - it still bothers me how the boy who voiced Eric was sixteen when they did this film but Ariel was almost thirty years old. What kind of cougar realness.

Forgot how great the score is to this film.