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Middle Earth is, for many of , a very gay place, and I would like to see that queer legacy reflected Amazon's new Lord of the Rgs seri.

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LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE

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'LORD OF THE RGS' ACTOR VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS CISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE

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MAKE AMAZON’S LORD OF THE RGS GAY, YOU COWARDS

YouTube reviewer and soper Grace Randolph recently released her review for Prime Vio's The Lord of the Rgs: The Rgs of Power and she took Morfydd Clark's Galadriel to task and claimed that Elrond and a number of the male Elv are gay. * gay characters lord of the rings *

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IS ‘THE LORD OF THE RGS’ A QUEER LOVE STORY?IN TOLKIEN’S FANTASY WORLD, GENR IS “OTHER”JONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·8 M READ·FEB 18, 2021--18SHAREIT WAS STRANGE — AN ALL-MALE EPIC WHOSE HERO WERE THE FEME ON? NOT EVERYBODY WAS TO “THE LORD OF THE RGS.” REVIEWS WERE FULL OF TART REMARKS.IN 1955, ONE NOT THAT J.R.R. TOLKIEN’S CHARACTERS SEEM NOT TO KNOW “ANYTHG ABOUT WOMEN, EXCEPT BY HEARSAY.” BUT, YEAR BY YEAR, THE WORLD FELL LOVE WH THE BIGGT, QUEERT, MOST CLOSETED LOVE STORY EVER.GIZTHEGUNSLGER, “BEHD BLUE EY” (2020)TOLKIEN’S SPECI’ ARE FULL OF GENRED CU.A HOBB, FOR EXAMPLE, IS SORT OF GAY. THIS SEEMS TO ME OVERT AND UNNTROVERSIAL. HILARY WHEATON, A 2006 SAY, “MASCULY LORD OF THE RGS,” NOT THE HOBBS SEEM “FEMIZED,” WH A LACK OF “MASCULE TRAS.”BUT THE GENERALLY STRAIGHT WORLD OF TOLKIEN FANS, SUCH OBSERVATNS N TO TROUBLE. IN A 2015 SAY, “SEX AND SUBTEXT TOLKIEN’S WORLD,” DAVID LAFONTAE ADDS: “THE HOMOEROTICISM OF THE HOBBS, THE RACE OF BEGS THAT LNCHED TOLKIEN’S FAME, HAS OFTEN BEEN GLOSSED OVER, NIED, AND SOMETIM ATTACKED.”HE POTS OUT THAT GOLLUM READ AS A “LISPG HOLLYWOOD STEREOTYPE OF A BTER QUEEN.”TOLKIEN HAD ALL BUT SAID THAT BAGGS WAS GAY.

It’s tricky to apply morn labels to people that they did not claim life — but morn labels clu “straight” and “cisgenr” jt as much as “gay” or “transgenr.

GRACE RANDOLPH SAVAG GALADRIEL IN ‘THE LORD OF THE RGS: THE RGS OF POWER,’ CLAIMS ELROND IS GAY

One of them was Geofey Bache Smh, a poet whose work is nsired homoromantic by morn rears. “Homosexualy the First World War. Lord of the Rgs is gay wh a pal "G"-for-Gandalf, and anyone who ntts that is clearly not readg the same books or watchg the same films that we are.

‘LORD OF THE RGS’ IS STILL GAYER THAN EVER

And durg said discsn, he implied that the same uld also be te of his own character, Gandalf: "Now there are two gay dwarfs. There’s a gay elf.

There are six openly gay actors. Who’s to say that Gandalf isn’t gay anyway?

So between all that and Legolas' bleached gay crisis hair, 's easy to see why queer fans love Lord of the Rgs so much.

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Grace Randolph Savag Galadriel In 'The Lord Of The Rgs: The Rgs Of Power,' Claims Elrond Is Gay - Boundg Into Comics .

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