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.
Contents:
- WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
- WHEN WERE FRODO AND SAM FIRST NCEPTUALIZED AS GAY?
- HOW FRODO AND SAM WERE “MOSTLY GAY”
- LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE
WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
Note: This say ntas discsn of homophobia and mentn of suici.
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He faced a urt-martial 1918 after one of his letters scribed “homosexual relatns wh men his pany.
WHEN WERE FRODO AND SAM FIRST NCEPTUALIZED AS GAY?
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.
HOW FRODO AND SAM WERE “MOSTLY GAY”
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.
LORD OF THE RG TAPS A GAY ARCHETYPE
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.