Thread: Gay subtext?
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Old 01-17-2002, 05:38 PM   #126
Elendil
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I always understood the Sodom and Gomorra passage referred to men *preferring* to sleep with men, not simply because they were gay. But why assume that Tolkien was thinking one thing or the other, simply because he was religious? I just guess we'll never know.
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