OK, so, with the consistency of Glorfindel being portrayed as a Gay in fanfic, I'm uber-frustrated. Does it state that he's gay in a canon source? Or is it fanfic slash and/or cruel humor?
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| Author: | Turwaithion [ May 4th, 2008, 8:02 pm ] |
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OK, so, with the consistency of Glorfindel being portrayed as a Gay in fanfic, I'm uber-frustrated. Does it state that he's gay in a canon source? Or is it fanfic slash and/or cruel humor?
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| Author: | Fíriel_18190 [ May 5th, 2008, 10:48 am ] |
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no, it never states anywhere that Glorfindel is gay as far as I know. What a stupid imagination; that doesn't fit to him at all |
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| Author: | Turwaithion [ May 5th, 2008, 7:36 pm ] |
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Yeah. And it's not just 1 or 2 fics, it's ALL of them. |
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| Author: | Pandora [ May 5th, 2008, 7:42 pm ] |
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A lot of the fanfics I am sure portray Glorfindel this way because of his background, and his history not being as known as let's say... Frodo, or Aragorn... don't take it to heart... I love Glorfindel to death, he is my husband in fact... <333 but it is just people making the character like that, it is not canon whatsoever... |
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| Author: | Turwaithion [ May 5th, 2008, 7:55 pm ] |
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Still....Ewww. I have a hard tiome stomaching a gay elf. If only that Tolkien based them off the pinnacle of a Catholic ideal. |
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| Author: | Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ May 5th, 2008, 8:43 pm ] |
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Er yeah... a piece of advice: read the books. People portray all Elves as gay just because they're "pretty". Nowhere does Tolkien even imply in any shape or form that Glorfindel is gay... |
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| Author: | Fíriel_18190 [ May 6th, 2008, 9:29 am ] |
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^ hmm, it really annoys don't really understand what elves are like, but just portray them as gay. And if you read the books the description of Glorfindel is just sooo un-gay |
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| Author: | Turwaithion [ May 6th, 2008, 7:18 pm ] |
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I have, but Tolkien, in my opinion, doesn't give us much to go on for Glorfindel. |
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| Author: | Ánië Súrion [ May 11th, 2008, 12:55 am ] |
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Poor Glorfindel. So unfairly treated by everybody.  I'd consider writing a clearly non-slash story with him in it, but I'm in the middle of two stories at the moment and I don't want to take another one on...
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| Author: | Ellethwen [ May 17th, 2008, 9:51 am ] |
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I fail to understand the obsession with fanfic authors making EVERBODY gay. Poor Glorfindel. |
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| Author: | Turwaithion [ May 17th, 2008, 9:59 am ] |
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Nor do I. I see that there is only one reason that writers could use, and that's that JRR didn't say that there wasn't a gay elf. The gits. WHY, is it always Erestor and Glorfindel, anyway? SERIOUSLY they are pretty well the only Eldar portrayed as gay by the Fanfic writers. |
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| Author: | Nerissa [ May 20th, 2008, 10:32 am ] |
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Someone really needs to write some non-gay/non-fangirl elvish/Glorfindel fan fiction.... A gay Glorfindel makes me sick...  Sometimes I think you have to laugh though. Some people just don't have enough background in Tolkien's works to know any different... but oh well.
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| Author: | Nerissa [ May 20th, 2008, 12:02 pm ] |
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Alrightie! I haven't heard of that site before, thanks for telling me about it!  I'll definitely have to check it out.
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| Author: | Nauriel Rochnur [ May 27th, 2008, 11:23 pm ] |
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Yeah, Simarillion fanfiction is the way to go. There are a few exceptions, but mostly people who read the entire simarillion arn't going to do stuff like that. I hope. |
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| Author: | Fíriel_18190 [ May 28th, 2008, 7:56 am ] |
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^ Well no, probably not and I think that is because most people who have read the Silmarillion are really interested in Tolkien's work and so they'd never write anything like Glorfindel's gay or so |
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| Author: | Ashwise [ June 4th, 2008, 11:12 pm ] |
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how about trying hennuth-annun.net for your fanfiction needs? They've got really good stories. |
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