#gay Tolkien characters

[dionis-kaos]

Gigolas porque Why the fuck not???

[memray]

men who hate people having their silly little lotr ships are so silly and get so wound up about how someone else has interpreted a piece of fiction

like girl i literally don’t care if you don’t ship them why are you all up in MY business about how i’ve interpreted legolas and gimli’s ending as aligning with early-mid 20th century queer coding??

[bluevaldezinator]

Reading/listening to Two Towers and people really do have a reason to ship Sam and Frodo huh? They’re really queering it up!

[sluttysuperheroes]

hey do you guys remember how in the third hobbit movie they literally threw fili’s corpse off a cliff then they were like anyways stream twenty minute long thorin death scene bagginshield hurt no comfort tw major character death and fili was never mentioned again. that’s the price of having swag

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

erestor from the lord of the rings is gay (headcanon)

submitted by anonymous

[gayboss-too-close-to-the-sun]

Okay but like

How much of the Tolkien fandom is homophobic?? Because from my experience Tolkien nerds are always either very homophobic or very queer positive, and I have no clue what the pie chart would show for how large each population is. It’s made me quite afraid of the fandom because I don’t know how to end up in only the gay parts and have had too many unpleasant encounters with the homophobic parts…

I know my exposure is only to a specific set of fans, so I don’t feel like I have enough experience to estimate and I’m just like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[creativity-deficient]

Making my friend who does not watch South Park name some of the characters

[hee-blee-art]

gay elf and hobbit-dwarf rights

[image ID: seven digital drawings of eiliamben / münirith, a slim androgynous elf with light skin and dark brown hair with a blonde patch on top that is short everywhere except for two sections at each temple; and grin, a stocky masculine half-hobbit-half-dwarf with light skin, light beard scruff, and long curly brown hair that is shaved on the sides and usually worn partially or fully up. eiliamben dresses in green, blue, or peach colored robes, dresses, capes, and coats, and grin dresses in earth- and jewel-toned collared shirts, vests, leather belts and harnesses, and paint-stained pants. in the first drawing, they are walking side by side as grin proudly shows of a poorly made cup, saying, "I forged it myself!" eiliamben replies, "well it's certainly unique." in the second, grin stands on his tiptoes to ask, "aren't you a little short for an elf?" eliamben raises a brows a replies, "you're calling me short?" grin asks, "aren't you supposed to be 10 feet tall or something?" in the third, eiliamben in knelt in front of grin and he smiles down at them with his arms crosses, saying, "heh, heh, imagine if you were this short." eiliamben says, "isn't that what we're doing?" and grin laughs. in the fourth, the two of them are in a sunny forest surrounded by butterflies, and eiliamben is knelt and smiling as they hold out a large dragonfly-like creature towards grin, who nervously pokes it. in the fifth, they are bathing in a hot spring together, eiliamben glancing calmly over at a very flustered grin, who is steaming and looking away with a heavy blush. in the sixth, grin is painting a posed eiliamben, who sits in a lush green clearing. in the seventh, they are running hand in hand, both smiling happily at each other. end ID]

[wierdartistmarcell]

Finally finished another Creek outfit drawing. This time we got Tweek the Bard and Craig the Warrior. Decided to put these fits into a D&D setting. And I love any opportunity to draw the whole gang together. (Yeah, I know Jason was part of the gang but, eh. No one cares about the Whites)

I had a lot of fun rendering this thing, especially the clothes of the upper panel.

[ehrmantrautpup]

Leithor (oc) and Gandalf 🌿

They’re in love guys

[toupee-or-nottoupee]

do u ever wonder if tolkien had thoughts about bilbo actually being queer when he established the man was a confirmed bachelor/never had a partner in the end. did he ever had such thoughts never written down. like did his character just run from him and he realized oh this little man is queer queer

[tyrannuspitch]

people on this website are always talking about how we need more serialised longform media with more pointless meandering where nothing happens well NOT ME. get to the fucking point!!!

[retellingthehobbit]

Retelling The Hobbit Chapter 16: The Song of the Lonely Mountain First chapter / Previous / Next

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*crumbles into dust after finishing this* Thank you for reading! This The Hobbit webcomic adaptation thing takes a lot of effort to put together and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate every comment. I also really appreciate the people who’ve spread the word of this comic to their friends! <3

And finally, we’re at the Song of the Lonely Mountain! Within Tolkien’s canon, The Hobbit is an in-universe book that was “written” by Bilbo Baggins, who occasionally lies/embellishes/exaggerates things. The tonal differences between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings are explained by Bilbo and Frodo/Sam being different kinds of storytellers, with different relationships to “the truth.” This idea is the core of how I’m adapting the novel!  Bilbo is an unreliable narrator who is literally ‘drawing’ from his own limited experiences;  the different art styles reflect the different perspectives of other characters.   The “dwarf art style” in this chapter is inspired by stonework/metalwork in general— but especially by a mix of art deco, Celtic art, and European folk art. 

The central tension of the comic is between Bilbo and Thorin, who each have wildly different ideas about what kind of  story they’re in. Thorin is in a grand fantasy epic, while Bilbo is in a lighthearted children’s book adventure.  The tragedy is, obviously, that only one side of the story ever gets to be fully told.

On a sillier note, a few years ago I had my first gay crush on a lesbian who sang while playing the piano. This chapter is dedicated to the piano lesbian. I hope they’re doing well, wherever they are. XD

I think I might need a bit of a break but I’m hoping for the next chapter, titled “Dawn,” to arrive on January 13th. And your comments/support really do help motivate me to get more done! ^_^

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

beleg from the silmarillion is gay (headcanon)

submitted by anonymous

[lalaithion]

Fundamentally I believe that writing about the rich and varied human existence is so important, and authors who do this end up seeming prescient in ways that naive analysis often rejects.

Two examples. First; a lot of people ship Frodo/Sam or Legolas/Gimli (or more obscure gay ships like Maedhros/Fingon), and some people say stuff like “well, Tolkien was catholic, he clearly didn’t intend for these characters to be gay.” But Tolkien himself says that he doesn’t write Christian allegory, in fact he despises all allegory. What he does is write about the rich and varied human existence, and when he did so he drew on the experiences of the likely closeted gay and bisexual men he had met over his life! And he synthesized this as just a way people behave, not as ‘representation’ but reality. And we can recognize that while in the early twentieth century, the 15% of people that identify as bisexual in the current generation (gen Z) would likely have married people of the opposite gender, that doesn’t mean they didn’t have same-gender relationships that had romantic elements even if they were never consummated.

A second example; in Tamora Pierce’s the Song of the Lioness Quartet, Alanna, the main character, dresses as a boy and trains to be a knight. As she grows up, she has to re-learn to connect with her femininity in secret with the few people who know who she is (thus making her a paradoxically-apt role model for both trans men and trans women, depending on which parts of the narrative one projects oneself onto). But Alanna never feels truly comfortable as a woman, either, and constantly has to assert both her masculinity and femininity to different people once she becomes a knight and reveals the secret. Tamora Pierce has since stated that if Alanna were born in the modern day, she would likely identify as genderfluid. But these books were written in the 1980s, and while there were people in that time period who were exploring the language of nonbinary and genderfluid identities, it wasn’t really a widespread notion, and while I can’t be sure Tamora Pierce didn’t encounter that language I sort of doubt Alanna was intended from the beginning to fit that identity. Instead, Pierce wrote a character based on the people she knew in life, who perhaps uncomfortably chafed at their assigned gender, and wrote a character who really believably would be genderfluid today, despite (plausibly) not knowing what ‘genderfluid’ was!

And I think that’s beautiful. There’s not really a point to this but just to highlight a perspective in literary analysis that you can lose if you focus too much on the biographical details of the author.

[moncuries]

they will nawt back down and have somehow come to the conclusion that sam’s nose and facial features mean that he has a twinks body BRO ITS A HEADSHOT. anyway enjoy my block

someone called my samwise twinkified 😭😭 bro i gave him eyelashes and pink cheeks arrest me