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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MEN'S ENGAGEMENT RGS - GAY
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LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE
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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.
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