[Marileangorifurnimaluim]

Wow, I'm amazed you can spell Marilean.. Marileangorit.. oh heck. Yes, Maril's what I use.

You know, when I was in high school it bothered me my friends thought Sam and Frodo were gay. Now I can see the fun in it without getting defensive. I guess I was too close to it before to give myself much room to explore, the LotR was an absolute. Now I look at the LotR more as a writer and less as a member of ME. So I think, how would one write the story with such a spin? What then would be the unwritten background? Tolkien did not consider anything he wrote as an absolute, his imagination was fertile, constantly tinkering and changing and trying out new ideas.