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:
- ELIJAH WOOD GETS LGH OUT OF GAY MORS
- WHEN WERE FRODO AND SAM FIRST NCEPTUALIZED AS GAY?
- WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
- HOW FRODO AND SAM WERE “MOSTLY GAY”
- MAKE AMAZON’S LORD OF THE RGS GAY, YOU COWARDS
ELIJAH WOOD GETS LGH OUT OF GAY MORS
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. * frodo gay *
Note: This say ntas discsn of homophobia and mentn of suici.
WHEN WERE FRODO AND SAM FIRST NCEPTUALIZED AS GAY?
Elijah Wood is fally addrsg those gay mors. And unlike certa megabucks stars — Tom Cise, for stance — he’s not threateng to sue. In fact, the “Lord of the Rgs” star seems amed. Wood says he lik to surf the Web and look at doctored photos that put him promisg posns wh men.“There’s one that’s lled elijahwoodisveryverygay, which is actually a pers * frodo gay *
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!
WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
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. She beme an in the gay male muny for wrg sympathetilly about same-sex relatnships ancient Greece.
HOW FRODO AND SAM WERE “MOSTLY GAY”
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.
MAKE AMAZON’S LORD OF THE RGS GAY, YOU COWARDS
One of them was Geofey Bache Smh, a poet whose work is nsired homoromantic by morn rears. “Homosexualy the First World War.
Was Frodo Baggs gay?
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.