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PostPosted: 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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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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Yeah. And it's not just 1 or 2 fics, it's ALL of them.


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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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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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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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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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I have, but Tolkien, in my opinion, doesn't give us much to go on for Glorfindel.

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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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PostPosted: 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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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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Someone really needs to write some non-gay/non-fangirl elvish/Glorfindel fan fiction.... A gay Glorfindel makes me sick... :blink: 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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Alrightie! I haven't heard of that site before, thanks for telling me about it! :-D I'll definitely have to check it out.

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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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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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how about trying hennuth-annun.net for your fanfiction needs? They've got really good stories.

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