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.
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WHEN WERE FRODO AND SAM FIRST NCEPTUALIZED AS GAY?
What's your opn the the gay subtext between Sam and Frodo? It's clear that Tolkien would have read The Iliad, The Odyssey, etc and would have no doubt unrstood the homosexualy folk stori and legends.
While Merry and Pipp seem to have a much more normal iendship whout a lot of homoeroticism. My iends sist that Sam and odo are gay for each other.
I've seen a lot of posts on Twter recently of people tryg to ship Frodo and Sam together sayg that they are clearly gay and a uple (I see alot om LGBT ers) and I wanted to know your thoughts. Not g om a homophobic pot of view, but the male characters all show love and affectn towards each other, rg about each other and showg emotnal vulnerabily, and to rce that iendship to "oh 's bee they are gay" I see as a form toxic masculy that the only way for men to have emotns and re for each other is "bee gay" To me tak away om the characters the same way that men n't be real iends wh women bee they jt want to sleep wh them. Jt to reerate, this isn't om a homophobic place, if the characters were gay, that's fe, i see more as toxic masculy.
WAS FRODO BAGGS GAY AND IS SAM LOVE WH HIM?
I thk bothers me bee I'm a relatively emotnal guy and alt wh a lot of gay jok growg up bee of that toxic masculy, and saw the fellowship as reprentatn that "men" n have feelgs too, so to jt ship the characters as a gay relatnship kd of nfirms the taxi views.
Someone said Frodo uld very well be gay, and I n see that, also if you want to ship Legolas and Gimli, go for , make their petn have sexual tensn stead of beg more racially based. Also sce some of you seem to ask, I follow LOTR on Twter, so I see pretty much any tweet relatg to , seems like 50% are talkg about Sam and Frodo a gay relatnship as nnon, not fanfic.
Sean Ast believ that Frodo and Sam ARE gay. Of all the thgs people who aren't really fans of the seri like to jab at, this attempt to assert that Sam and Frodo are gay has always been the stupist and most ttable my opn (ed: when ed as an attack), not bee would be bad if they were, but bee is g om a hyper-mascule and emotnally fantile viewpot. The kd of person -- and society -- which has to al wh disfort and homophobic sentiment (largely maniftg as awkward jok) around the exprsns and this distctn is a prime example of masculy lackg subtlety, matury, and emotnal telligence.