The Tolkien Bilbo Baggs - The Gay & Lbian Review

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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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WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?

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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. 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.

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!

LOTR'S HOBBS: ARE THEY GAY?

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.

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