is there a gay character Tolkien's universe?

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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.

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IS THERE A GAY CHARACTER TOLKIEN'S UNIVERSE?

I was watchg a Gee R R Mart terview and had a qutn. Is there a gay character Tolkien's universe. As far as I n remember there isn't * gay characters lotr *

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.

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He never would have wrten about gay people!” But there are exampl of queerns Tolkien’s time and place, and any speculatn is backed by historil ntext.

He faced a urt-martial 1918 after one of his letters scribed “homosexual relatns wh men his pany.” Rather than face the nsequenc — rporal punishment and two years prison — and the shame the trial would brg upon his fay, he walked to enemy fire and was killed. 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.

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