[Tinker]

Ah slash. "Something not good, I believe?"

Well now, that's a matter of personal beliefs is it not? Both on the books and life.

But before I drown in Deep Thought, I'll tell you. Slash is fanfiction that involves same-gender relationships. Sometimes (okay okay, most times) it is sexual. Not a huge fan of it myself, though I have glanced at a few and read some amazingly done ones where the slash was purely emotional (or at least Love was put forward rather than Sex).

As Far as Tolkien goes, you can find a lot of Sam/Frodo, a fair bit of Merry/Pippin slash, and some other varities I can't think of right now. I remember reading a fanfiction once where those hobbits got connected to the internet and read those stories. It was hilarious. If I could only remember where it was.