The attack on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rgs seri ntu as cultural vandals attempt to repeat their lie ad nsm that Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggs are gay.
Contents:
- WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
- HOW FRODO AND SAM WERE “MOSTLY GAY”
- WHEN WERE FRODO AND SAM FIRST NCEPTUALIZED AS GAY?
- WHY DO SOME PEOPLE THK SAM AND FRODO WERE GAY?
- LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE
WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
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HOW FRODO AND SAM WERE “MOSTLY GAY”
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WHEN WERE FRODO AND SAM FIRST NCEPTUALIZED AS GAY?
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Neher was said that Frodo Baggs was gay nor that Sam was love wh him. Frodo and Sam fely have some nnectn that rarely any other characters the books have (there are few), but is their relatnship gay, and is Sam love wh Frodo is really hard to tell. I image a lot of gay and bisexual men did the same.
So Frodo and Sam n be gay if you want them to be. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rgs seri ntu as cultural vandals attempt to repeat their lie ad nsm that Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggs are gay. The latt effort to spread the li after Twter er WargarW theorized that if Hollywood was makg The Lord of the Rgs today “Aragorn would have been a woman (but Arwen still a she-Elf), Frodo & Sam would have been gay, Gandalf black & the only whe male actors the entire st would have been Dehor, Gríma & Saman.
WHY DO SOME PEOPLE THK SAM AND FRODO WERE GAY?
One wrote, “>Sam and Frodo would have been gay” >”would have. Twter er MadzBtal tweeted, “Everythg else asi, image watchg Lord of the Rgs and not thkg Sam and Frodo are gay.
Another tweeted, “Sam and Frodo were gay when me out 2001 bro. RELATED: The Lord Of The Rgs Fan Se Embarrass Itself By Promotg Easily Disprovable Gay Elv Theory. Even if you haven’t read the books, and have only seen Peter Jackson’s adaptatn of them, ’s abundantly clear that Sam and Frodo are not homosexuals.
LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE
It’s crystal clear that Sam and Frodo are not homosexuals, and if you try to project that onto them, you are eher lnal, or sisterly phg a disorred agenda. In The Lord of the Rgs: The Fellowship of the Rg's st mentary, Ian McKellen, a gay in his own right who played Gandalf the Grey, revealed that he was rponsible for the cln of a small but ccial moment between Sam (Sean Ast) and Frodo (Elijah Wood) that featured the books but might not have ma to the films whout his suggtn. "When I suggted to Sean that he take Elijah's hand, ” McKellen explas, “ was bee I thought that [] might be missed by two rolutely heterosexual actors who might not appreciate that gay people, like myself, saw a touch somethg, perhaps, more meangful than others might.
McKellen’s suggtn exemplifi how The Lord of the Rgs so succsfully rved a niche for self as a part of queer fandom, and why LGBTQ+ fans are so drawn to the Sam/Frodo relatnship the books: Though Tolkien himself likely didn’t tend to the relatnship as gay, the sheer tenrns of the language and the nstant affectn between the two speaks to a kd of timacy that queer fans are able to regnize and ronate wh. I’ve heard many a person say that Frodo and Sam The Lord of the Rgs were gay.