Timeline for Was there any notion of homosexuality in Middle-earth?
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| Oct 28, 2021 at 12:49 | answer | added | Mae | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Aug 5, 2021 at 16:49 | vote | accept | DVK-on-Ahch-To | ||
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| Mar 17, 2016 at 1:55 | comment | added | Yasskier | It is worth to point that homosexuality was illegal in UK till 1967, so its not very surprising Tolkien doesn't mention it in any way. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 20:45 | history | edited | user31178 |
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| Nov 8, 2015 at 15:39 | history | protected | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | ||
| Jun 13, 2015 at 21:53 | comment | added | jamesqf | Sure, but the question remains why Tolkien, a product of early 20th century British culture, would have had them act that way. It's much the same as with the few women in LOTR: two of them seem good for nothing much beyond sitting on a pedestal, while Eowyn is a pretty modern warrior woman. | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 0:23 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @jamesqf - It's very culture specific. Russians hug and kiss a lot (despite being majorly homophobic). In general, physical platonic affection between males was a thing prior to 20th century. | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 0:15 | comment | added | jamesqf | Well, Sam and Frodo do sometimes kiss and otherwise act differently than straight guys would in current US culture. Maybe it's just different times and customs, but I don't offhand recall any other instance of men kissing in books of the period say 1910-1950. (And personally, I wouldn't kiss someone, male or female, unless sex was at least a possibility.) As noted below, if there were any open homosexuality in LOTR, it could not have been published, so I've sometimes wondered whether Tolkien was perhaps slipping in an oblique reference. | |
| S Jun 12, 2015 at 21:04 | history | suggested | Alfredo Hernández | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jun 12, 2015 at 15:01 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S Jun 12, 2015 at 15:01 | history | notice removed | user1027 | ||
| S Jun 10, 2015 at 0:51 | history | bounty started | CommunityBot | ||
| S Jun 10, 2015 at 0:51 | history | notice added | user1027 | Reward existing answer | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 0:44 | history | edited | user1027 |
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| Jun 9, 2015 at 21:45 | answer | added | Wad Cheber | timeline score: 30 | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 7:54 | answer | added | LazyLizardLounge | timeline score: -2 | |
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| Jan 14, 2014 at 1:46 | answer | added | Darian Miller | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 14:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/421652292853858304 | ||
| Jan 10, 2014 at 13:01 | answer | added | Dave M | timeline score: 34 | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 12:12 | history | asked | DVK-on-Ahch-To | CC BY-SA 3.0 |