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Rosa Underhill · 02-09-2002, 11:30 PM

I present to you all a few articles to ease your mind on this matter. The first is from TheOneRing.net:Quickbeam's Out on A Limb... Quickbeam gives a marvelous explanation of Sam and Frodo's friendship, for indeed, that's all it is.

Then there'sthis newspaper article from the Washington Post (I think) that has tiny blurb in it about brotherly love and the fact that that's what we see between Sam and Frodo and not the rampant homoerotica that many wish was there.

Tolkien was a devout Christian; if that doesn't say something, I don't what does. The love between Sam and Frodo is brotherly (phileo in Greek) and, in the case of Sam, sacrificial (agape in Greek). It doesn't take much to prove outright that there is no homosexuality in LotR. Be at ease, master_of_puppets and the rest, try not to be too angry. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

02-09-2002, 11:30 PM	#9
Rosa Underhill Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Waymeet, the Shire Posts: 297	I present to you all a few articles to ease your mind on this matter. The first is from TheOneRing.net:Quickbeam's Out on A Limb... Quickbeam gives a marvelous explanation of Sam and Frodo's friendship, for indeed, that's all it is. Then there'sthis newspaper article from the Washington Post (I think) that has tiny blurb in it about brotherly love and the fact that that's what we see between Sam and Frodo and not the rampant homoerotica that many wish was there. Tolkien was a devout Christian; if that doesn't say something, I don't what does. The love between Sam and Frodo is brotherly (phileo in Greek) and, in the case of Sam, sacrificial (agape in Greek). It doesn't take much to prove outright that there is no homosexuality in LotR. Be at ease, master_of_puppets and the rest, try not to be too angry. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ WWAHD? (What would a Hobbit do?)