Frodo, Sam, and love.

I want more queer stories, told louder, with bigger budgets. If you ship Frodo and Sam, if that reading brings you joy, you are welcome to it and to my genuine goodwill; fandom is a playground, not a courtroom.

I (the person that is not you) have never read Frodo and Sam as gay. Not out of squeamishness, and not because I think a gay Frodo would diminish anything, but because what Tolkien actually put on the page seems to me a different but still very salient fictional relationship. He wrote two men who love each other completely, without irony, without fear, and without wanting anything from each other but the other's good. He wrote a friendship that deepens into brotherhood, and he wrote it at a scale western culture would consider, if enacted in real-life, to be homosexual.

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https://www.kenreid.co.uk/blog/frodo-sam-and-love.html