You *don't* want to see Aragorn/Legolas slash? Who are you, and what did you do to the real meteordust?
I said I was a purist. As far as I'm concerned, the canonical pairings (or as close to canonical as you can get) are Frodo/Sam and Legolas/Gimli. Of course, in the movies, Gimli's not as photogenic as the pretty elf boy and the rugged handsome ranger, so he gets shafted. But y'know, it's not *Aragorn* who ends up taking the grey ship with Legolas, is it?
Wait, I forgot really masculine men don't work in shounen ai.
Slash, however, can involve very masculine, muscly, hairy men. (And in any case, I'm not sure Legolas can be called a 'really masculine man'...)
every time there was a touching scene between two of the hobbits my brain went "*ding*! slash!"
Well, like I said before, Frodo/Sam is practically canon. I don't mean "OMG wild hobbit sex", but definitely "OMG they are so in love". A case can also be made for Merry/Pippin, but I'm not really fussed either way about them.
So, er, don't blame us. The hobbit love is in the text. Interpretation is up to the individual...
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Date: 2003-12-27 06:02 am (UTC)I said I was a purist. As far as I'm concerned, the canonical pairings (or as close to canonical as you can get) are Frodo/Sam and Legolas/Gimli. Of course, in the movies, Gimli's not as photogenic as the pretty elf boy and the rugged handsome ranger, so he gets shafted. But y'know, it's not *Aragorn* who ends up taking the grey ship with Legolas, is it?
Wait, I forgot really masculine men don't work in shounen ai.
Slash, however, can involve very masculine, muscly, hairy men. (And in any case, I'm not sure Legolas can be called a 'really masculine man'...)
every time there was a touching scene between two of the hobbits my brain went "*ding*! slash!"
Well, like I said before, Frodo/Sam is practically canon. I don't mean "OMG wild hobbit sex", but definitely "OMG they are so in love". A case can also be made for Merry/Pippin, but I'm not really fussed either way about them.
So, er, don't blame us. The hobbit love is in the text. Interpretation is up to the individual...