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:
- WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
- ‘LORD OF THE RGS’ IS STILL GAYER THAN EVER
- HOW FRODO AND SAM WERE “MOSTLY GAY”
- MAKE AMAZON’S LORD OF THE RGS GAY, YOU COWARDS
- LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE
WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
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. * is frodo gay in lord of the rings *
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.
‘LORD OF THE RGS’ IS STILL GAYER THAN EVER
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!
HOW FRODO AND SAM WERE “MOSTLY 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.
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.
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.
LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE
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. 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.
The latt effort to spread the li after Twter er WargarW theorized that if Hollywood was makg The Lord of the Rgs today “Aragorn would have been a woman (but Arwen still a she-Elf), Frodo & Sam would have been gay, Gandalf black & the only whe male actors the entire st would have been Dehor, Gríma & Saman. One wrote, “>Sam and Frodo would have been gay” >”would have.