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.
Contents:
- LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE
- ‘LORD OF THE RGS’ IS STILL GAYER THAN EVER
- MAKE AMAZON’S LORD OF THE RGS GAY, YOU COWARDS
LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE
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? * lord of the rings gay ships *
Note: This say ntas discsn of homophobia and mentn of suici.
‘LORD OF THE RGS’ IS STILL GAYER THAN EVER
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! 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.
MAKE AMAZON’S LORD OF THE RGS GAY, YOU COWARDS
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.