#aromantic boromir

[stvnszlr]

my favorite thing about the tolkien universe is that i can hc almost any character as aspec and it will always make sense

fili? aromantic asexual. frodo and sam? both ace. boromir? aroace too! aragorn? ABSOLUTELY asexual. thorin? probably on both spectrums somewhere. eomer? ace and arospec. bard? aromantic, duh.

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

boromir from the lord of the rings is aroace (headcanon)

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[aceinthefreakinspace]

I tried to create a color-picked aroace flag from Boromir and

I don't think it worked very well lol

[herbirdglitter]

Btw in case I hadn’t mentioned it, I’m an aroace Boromir truther and will be until the end of my days or until silver trumpets call the lords of Gondor home, is that clear?

[ihavenoideawhattotypehere]

do you ever visit a poll blog about one of your identities and just. fuckin. get so MAD at the choice of characters

[general-illyrin]

In addition, in the appendices of LotR, Tolkien specifically says that for Dwarves, not all women take husbands, in part because some desire none, and "very many of the men also do not desire marriage, being engrossed in their crafts."

As for The Silmarillion, just off the top of my head, there are two Valar (three if you count Morgoth) who are not mentioned having married in the text, and who do not appear to have desired marriage.

It’s aro week, and even though I still don’t feel like I fully have a handle on what aromaticism is, I do get the impression that The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings fit well with it? because all the main character’s most important and most central relationships aren’t romantic ones.

Bilbo is considered odd (“queer”, even) in the Shire for being a lifelong bachelor; his close relationships are with dwarven and elven friends, and with his adopted son Frodo. Frodo shows no romantic interest in anyone; his close relationships are with Sam, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, and later Aragorn. And the later relationship with Frodo, Sam, and Sam’s wife Rosie all living in Bag End - which is specifically proposed by Frodo - seems like it fits the definition of queerplatonic? Whether or not you see Legolas and Gimli as a couple, their closest relationship is clearly with each other. Merry and Pippin also seem pretty clearly the most important people in each others’ lives, and remain close withtheir friends in Rohan and Gondor even after returning to the Shire. Boromir’s almost canonically aroace, going by the appendices. The close friendships between Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are prominent, while the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen is relegated to an appendix. Most members of the Fellowship (6/9) do not get married or ‘fall in love’ in any traditional sense (and of the remaining three, one - Pippin - is only noted briefly in an appendix). The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings both have the characters’ relationships with each other - and the importance of valuing and cherishing those, not possessions or power - at their heart, and almost all of those relationships are non-romantic ones.

[queeringclassiclit]

Boromir

from The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien

submitted by @ashkyrni

[brighter-arda]

Aroallo Boromir and alloace Faramir for day 4 of @aspecardaweek 🪙💛🤍💚🟢 ❤️💕🤍💜

Part 16 of toi's indigenous tolkien series

[image description: six images

1: text 'aromantic allosexual'. around the words are flowers in the colours of the aroallo flag (green, white, yellow, gold). behind the text is a symbol of minas tirith

2: a Blak man with white body/face paint on a background of aroallo colours. on top is text 'Boromir' with a white stone texture. there is a square border and small text 'captain of gondor'

3: a different Blak man with white body/face paint wearing possum fur. background is alloace colours (red, pink-red, white and purple). on top is text 'Faramir' with a white stone texture. there is a square border and text 'prince of ithilien'

4: text 'alloromantic asexual'. around the words are flowers in the colours of the alloace flag. behind the text is the symbol of the white tree of gondor

5: text 'sons of the steward' surrounded by green, black, white, grey and purple flowers. behind is a symbol of crossed swords.

6: both Blak men. Boromir holds a staff. on top is text 'brothers' with a white flower texture. behind is a four point star and different colours in each quarter (black, green, purple, grey) which together make the aspec flag.]

[maeofthenoldor]

Lotr character hc's, GO!

You have given me too much power....

*pulls out my 50 page google doc*

warning: These are my less serious list, and are completely random but I think these are the most entertaining :D

-before the quest, sam would leave flowers at Frodo's door and he never knew who it was so he would press them in a book. He only found out after the quest and he used a few pages of the flower book into the red book of the westmarch

-Aragorn likes to collect rocks when he was a kid to show eleond and he was always like "Thats nice awww" and all that. He is 87 and he still does this.

-Arwen is a split image of her ancestor luthien, but Elrond says that she looks a lot like maglor with her hair.

- The children of the shire would play pretend with Bilbo's adventure, often led by Frodo and the tooks. Sam was old enough to start playing with them before they grew too old, and Frodo let him play Thorin one time, and him as course as Bilbo. This memory sticks with Sam too this day.

-Boromir is Aromantic

-Pippin convinced boromir to wear a skirt with him (It was Legolas's skirt) and he did not admit that he actually liked it.

-Pippin wears more fem clothing which really confused Denethor

-Legolas and Gimli eloped on the quest (Aragorn was their officiator)

-Eowyn starts a program in Rohan where she teaches young girl to sword fight & protect themselves.

-Frodo is a good artist and used to draw portraits of Sam, Pippin and Merry. After the quest, he stopped drawing people and focused on sketching out the landscapes that they passed by on the journey. Yet they were always creepy, and slightly distorted in an uncanny way. Elanor finds his old sketchbook one time and gets nightmares of weeks after.

-Arwen taught Eowyn how to embroider tapestries

-Frodo would love to climb the oak tree that bilbo grew in his garden. he never knew where it came from...

-Boromir and Aragorn would argue on who would give the hobbits piggy back rides

-Legolas is rebellious by mirkwood elven standards because he refuses to drink. It causes quite a scandal that thrandruil, the king and biggest drinker, has a child that does not even want to get even a little typsy.

-Bilbo would tell merry and pippin how to do pranks because it reminded him of fili and kili-

-Legolas is nonbinary and uses (they/he) pronouns

-Merry had a big crush on Eowyn, and never knew that the feeling were mutual

-Aragorn talks to trees because he is a gremelin, while legolas actually speaks the languages of the trees. This is how they become best friends

-gandalf big naturals

-Gandalf spent those 15 years between bilbos 111th birhtday and the quest going to village to village tran-sing peoples gender

-Faramir is trans and gandalf was able to give him the right treatment and binders when he was kid before denethor found out. Boromir was happy to have a brother.

-Merry learns how to knit so he can make baby Elanor hats.

-Gimli is the hottest dwarf of Erebor by dwarven standards

-Sam makes Frodo fried mushrooms because he knows its his favorite.

-Lobelia and bilbo have wlw and mlm rivalry

-Merry and Pippin love really weird food combos. Mushrooms and honey? delish. Cherries and salt? yummy. Vinegar cake? even better.

They force every one of the fellowship to try one of these combinations. Aragorn doesn't notice anything bad, Sam eats it because he is polite, Frodo doesn't mind the mushrooms and honey, Boromir throws up, Gimli tells him he should add more meat and Legolas never felt more betrayed in his life.

-Rosie cotton met Goldberry once and they had a sort of relationship where they kissed. She never saw her again, and she thinks it was a dream.

-Tom Bombadil and Goldberry are qpr

-Elladan and Elorhir wanted to adopt merry and pippin until they realized they were ADULTS.

Thats all I have for now! Theres so much more but these are the only ones I can think of without getting into a whole essay on what means what and all that. Thank you smm for the ask anon!!

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

Very nice, well-written post on the topic. I'd just like to add, that there are actually LGBT characters in Tolkien books: there's a vast amount of aroace (aro and/or ace) characters! :) I read this once somewhere, and on my next reread of LOTR and Hobbit after that, I noticed actually how many oh them there are. Many of the protagonists, like Bilbo, Frodo or Boromir. Like, come on, Boromir is the 40 year old heir to a whole f***ing kingdom, who are generally expected to produce children, and he's not even married? There's Legolas and Gimli, too: are they gay? are they ace? I think both interpretations are very valid. And I mean it about all these characters. They're (obviously) not explicitly called aroace or ace, but the definition fits, and nothing contradicts that they could be.

You’re so right! Thanks for saying this! :) I have nothing to really add, except that many of the Elves in the Silmarillion could be interpreted this way too. Tolkien says it’s the norm for Elves to marry, but a lot of them don’t! Asexual and aromantic interpretations of many Tolkien characters make a lot of sense.

[tathrin]

🎯 🤩(and my boy boromir for 🧠 please!)

From this ask meme.

🎯 Have any of your readers accurately guessed major plot points? Care to share which?

Oh gods, probably? I'm not much of a "twist" writer tbh. When I get "gasps of shock" out of folks, it tends to be less a result of a plot twist they didn't see coming, and more in regards to the specific details of how x-y-z happened. If that makes sense? There are a lot more "oh no, Tathrin isn't really going to...oh crap, we are! oh crap!" vibes happening in my comment section than there are "wow, I didn't see that coming!" ones, I think? I'm more interested in getting people invested in seeing what happens next than I am in surprising them with something unexpected, I guess. So instead I'll answer the other way, and say that I was surprised that more people did not anticipate the death at the end of this story, because I had assumed that it was a foregone conclusion based on what the story was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

🤩 Who is your favorite character to write?

Boba Fett. (Original Flavor Boba Fett, I should say.) The only reason I don't write more of him is because he needs a story that deserves him, you know? And he's a pretty singular barve. But I love looking at the world(s) through his T-shaped visor.

🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them (for Boromir).

Oh damn, I don't know that I really have any significant ones honestly, since I don't really write him much (although I have been enjoying him recently and uhhh we're not ready to talk about The Zombie Story yet, but. well. there are thoughts happening and Plot Outline Possibility A has a significant amount of Boromir, so. I expect I'll be doing more of that soon shhh). So mostly thinking-out-loud here...I headcanon him as aromantic, because of the whole "delighting chiefly in arms" thing, and slightly baffled by everybody else's interest in all that sappy stuff, as he's always rolling his eyes affectionately at his little brother when Faramir goes off into some bout of poetry or whatnot. Also, I love a Slightly Baffled Boromir in relation to elves and dwarves (and Hobbits, too, but I feel like Hobbits are weird in a less bewildering way somehow) so the idea that he spends 90% of the Fellowhip's journey in a constant state of silent wtf-ing at whatever nonsense Gimli and especially Legolas are getting up to is a delight.

Thank you for making me think about Boromir more specifically!

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Well, if you want to talk about queer stuff in Lord of Rings...

First, I have to preface this by saying: "Tolkin was an old catholic fart, that did not quite realize that the 19th Century ended." I don't think, that he intentally wrote anything in his Mythos to be queer, but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of stuff, that can be interpreted in a very queer way. Death of the Author and all that

First, as you mentioned, the elves are very androgynous. Galadriel especially is described as very masculine, being a tall and strong woman, being "of Amazon disposition and bound up her hair as a crown when taking part in athletic feat". On the other Hand, male elves tend to have no beards and, at least in the movies, long hair. Elrond is described as "noble and fair as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer." It seems like most elves are described by feminine and masculine characteristics. It also needs to be mentioned, that dwarfes of all genders wear beards and female dwarfes are usually mistaken for male dwarfes by outsiders, if they are ever to be seen.

It is also interessting, how the old catholic Idea of Celibacy influenced a lot of the characters in a way, that seems a lot closer to what we would describe as somewhere on the asexual or aromantic spectrum. Many dwarfes, male and female, tend to not marry, as they don't desire a relationship. Also, Boromir is described in the Appendixes as not interested in a Wife or a Relationship, as he was occupied by his Role in the gondorian Army and his Training, similar to King Eärnur.

It also must be mentioned, how Friendships in Lord of the Rings seem much closer and more romantic as we would today describe Platonic Relationships. This probaly has its origins in older Customs of Friendships and also in the Relationships Soldiers formed in the trenches of WWI, but can also absolutly be interpreted as romatic. I probably don't need to mention Sam and Frodo, but there is also Gimli, who decided to break with Religious Traditions by not being buried in stone, but going in the West only with Legolas as his accompaniment, presumably because of their close Relationsship

Day seventeen of drawing with office supplies until they stop me

I feel like I should post some of my actually good art. Anyways here is my drawing of today and the continuation of yesterdays drawing as lord of the rings has thoroughly grasped my psyche. I read two chapters of the silmarillion yesterday, almost bled from my eyes but it’s really good! so so dense and the only way I can process it is to read it aloud and uh making up pronunciations is better than not understanding it. Anyways second hobbit lesbian and expect more, who do you think gave her that flower? I usually don’t put hobbits in blue since I think the hobbit described them as often dressing in greens and yellows? I think? Or did I gaslight myself into thinking that? Either way that’s the color palate I often use so I broke free a bit from that. Either way I associate a grey blue with Gandalf since the movies decided that a blue grey is better even though the blue wizards do exist and are god knows where. Can you tell I’m being dragged back into a hyperfixation? Thanks autism! Please talk to me about this.

[schroedingers-faggot]

being gay and aro (mostly also romance repulsed) has me absolutely unable to decide whether I want to see the entire boromir's death scene as purely platonic or very much romantic

like yes gay rep, but also ew romance, but also cute couple, but also I hate how we label so many gestures of affection as inherently romantic and would rather see more sensually affectionate platonic relationships, but also that feels homophobic

[cloverhatsandflowercrowns]

Most people on this website: Constantly shipping characters with each other and starting shipping wars over certain pairings

Meanwhile: Me headcannoning popular characters as aroace and preparing to be hanged for it