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Nobody wants to see a horny Gollum or Orcs wh ragg hard-ons – but why shouldn’t some of Middle-earth’s nizens be gay?

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

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Note: This say ntas discsn of homophobia and mentn of suici.

LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE

Armed wh a retort volvg proctologists, Osr-nomated actor Viggo Mortensen is prepared for cricism of his cisn - as a straight man - to play a gay character his directorial but, which premier Bra on Monday. * gay lord of the rings *

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!

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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. * gay lord of the rings *

He faced a urt-martial 1918 after one of his letters scribed “homosexual relatns wh men his pany.

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. Lewis wrote a letter to Sheldon Vanken (later reprted Vanken’s tobgraphy) that Lewis had received a letter om a “p male homosexual [... The only mentn is a bland reference his bgraphy by Humphrey Carpenter: “As to homosexualy, Tolkien claimed that at neteen he did not even know the word.

Tolkien wrote of the openly gay poet W. As scribed by thor Reynolds Price, at least one member of Tolkien’s iend group, the Inklgs, “separated om his wife and lived a quietly homosexual life.

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

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. * gay lord of the rings *

She beme an in the gay male muny for wrg sympathetilly about same-sex relatnships ancient Greece. Bilbo and Frodo’s home of Bag End is scribed by other hobbs as “a queer place, and s folk are queerer” — an adjective which had a strong nnotatn of homosexualy by the late 1800s. 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.

One of them was Geofey Bache Smh, a poet whose work is nsired homoromantic by morn rears. “Homosexualy the First World War.

The bate over jt how gay Lord of the Rgs really is will no doubt still be ragg another hundred years – there’s a fascatg say wrten om a queer perspective here – given the gild posn JRR Tolkien’s high-fantasy novel holds English lerary history.

THE LORD OF THE RGS FAN SE EMBARRASS ITSELF BY PROMOTG EASILY DISPROVABLE GAY ELV THEORY

What’s no longer doubt is that Peter Jackson’s team for the Osr-wng trilogy were perfectly well aware of their epic tale’s homoerotic unrton. Homosexualy Lord Of The Rungs. What do people thk of the number of homosexual relatnships LOTR?

THE GAY LORD OF THE RGS: READGS FROM MIDDLE-EARTH

While we know that Tolkien was a strict Catholic I still thk the entire trilogy is a metaphor for the plight of homosexuals the USA (and across the world).

LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Armed wh a retort volvg proctologists, Osr-nomated actor Viggo Mortensen is prepared for cricism of his cisn - as a straight man - to play a gay character his directorial but, which premier Bra on Monday. Mortensen, bt known for his portrayal of Aragorn the “Lord of the Rgs” trilogy, said he was jokg, but wanted to make the pot that actors are actors - simply playg a role whether a gay man or a proctologist. “Fallg” tells the story of John’s racist and homophobic father Willis, played by Lance Henriksen, who mov om his ral farm to live wh his son Los Angel when he starts showg early signs of mentia.

‘SO MUCH INJUSTICE’Mortensen, who wrote and directed the film as well as playg s ma protagonist, was keen to strs that his cisn to make John a gay man was not “a gimmick, anchor or some trigger” was while wrg an early scene which John gets a phone ll om his partner as Willis wanrs off an airport, that Mortensen cid to swch John’s sexualy. 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. And durg said discsn, he implied that the same uld also be te of his own character, Gandalf: "Now there are two gay dwarfs.

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