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The Lord of the Rgs fan se, The One Rg, ntu to embarrass themselv as they recently promoted an easily disprovable gay Elv theory.

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‘LORD OF THE RGS’ IS STILL GAYER THAN EVER

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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!

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

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.

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

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.

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