Is it really a joke though?

Yes, it's just male companionship from a time when people weren't insincere and dead inside

I dunno, he just seemed like someone who had emotional incontinence in a time when that wasn't chic

That's because he's not very bright and essentially makes up for that in the story by being a caring and brave person

Even this incompetent dude can contribute

Hmmm

Fair enough

LotR is "look at this underdog saving the day, and also these übermenschen who will do nothing, and also 50 pages on this fucking tree on top of a rock next to a waterfall"

"Tom Bombadil will do sweet fuck all. The next 3 chapters are songs and smoking weed. I invented a language for this book"

There is a reason that people say that lotr suceeded in spite of Tolkien.

Haha

He's the archetypical world builder who... developed his characters along the lines of an afterthought

sometimes it makes me sad that people can't look at males being close friends without someone making the "joke" of it just being gay.

LotR is honestly a beautiful work, it's just very slow paced for two books

The openness of homosexuality restrains heterosexual male affection

@Shadows blame the sexual revolution mate

Return of the King is the "Get Shit Done" book

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @wail

I remember reading a letter by John Adams or one of the other founding fathers, sleeping in the same bed as another founding father

GAY!

Yeah, so gay

Every man who ever expressed kinship with another man was gay -Gay Scholars Everywhere

indeed

I don't mind people really joking tho, what makes me sad is the ones that really believe men can never have bonds without things being sexual.

That's why the practice of "shipping" kind of annoying's me, but.... people are free to enjoy what they want......

Shipping is hilarious

But big difference between fantasy and insistence

quite

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This is relevant to terrorism in the US

> Pat Robertson claims leftists are gonna be using witchcraft

> 1992

> 2018

> leftists actually using witchcraft

Fucking _lol_

@RoadtoDawn did you see the video i linked about it?

Someone get me a photo of O’Rourke at the end of the rainbow with a sombrero

Captioned: The Rarest Leprechaun of All, Mexican subspecies

A pot of refried beans sounds really good tbh

@wolfman1911 do you consider federal spending on roads a hand out to cars?

Not really.