The importance of this relationship to queer fans, and the obvious “maybe it’s more than friendship” love between Frodo and Sam specifically, was profound enough that on the set of Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ian McKellan made sure that a moment from the book, where Sam takes Frodo’s hand, was preserved. But even before those two, fans seeking queer representation had latched onto many of the relationships in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, especially the one between Frodo and Sam. The term was first used in reference to fics about Kirk and Spock that were labeled Kirk/Spock. Slash, in case you’re new around here, refers to a romantic relationship between two male characters. The point is that Middle Earth was and is, for many of us, a very very gay place and I would very much like to see that queer legacy reflected in some way, in Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings series.īefore we go into my hopes for the new series, let’s look a bit more deeply at the original and the huge place it holds in the history of slash shipping. Also, let’s not forget whatever was going on with Bilbo and Thorin. And Aragorn and Boromir probably had a thing that one time. Frodo and Sam’s story is about love, no matter how you see it, but for many of us who adore the world of Tolkien, they were queer. Nothing in the entirety of the Tolkien canon, even Sam’s wife, will ever dissuade me from this fact. The love of Frodo Baggins’ life was one Mr.
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