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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
If you have seen Lady Chatterley there is precious little left to imagine  .... and while the 13 Gamgee children may have been an attempt to over compensate... you can't help thinking that a man who could name characters Teleporno and Shagrat may have been oblivious of some perceptions of his writing....  |
Oh yes. I have a VHS tape of it and it's all crackly now...
Indeed, Tolkien wrote in (slightly) more innocent times, with his use of the descriptive words queer and gay, though I'm certain he would not have been entirely green about homosexuality, as not only did he go to a Boys' school but he worked in a University with many gay students and academics, some of them quite infamous, not least Tolkien's friend and pupil Auden, who fell in love with Isherwood while at Oxford.