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.
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WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
Note: This say ntas discsn of homophobia and mentn of suici.]. Outsi of the safe darkns of the theater, the Mordor-like wasteland of middle school, the movi were synonymo wh the favored sult of the time — “gay.”. Early-2000s preteen Ameri was a time of gay jok, of “no homo,” of mockg voic and slurs, and secret, punive vlence enacted the locker room agast anyone who had a whiff of otherns.
He never would have wrten about gay people!” But there are exampl of queerns Tolkien’s time and place, and any speculatn is backed by historil ntext.
He faced a urt-martial 1918 after one of his letters scribed “homosexual relatns wh men his pany.” Rather than face the nsequenc — rporal punishment and two years prison — and the shame the trial would brg upon his fay, he walked to enemy fire and was killed. Two years before The Lord of the Rgs was published, war-wng breaker and geni mathematician Alan Turg stood trial for “homosexual acts and gross cency” — that is, beg ught his own home wh another man.