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[evandar]

Found a link to this while reading through the prompts on queer_fest (attached to a couple of prompts about Glorfindel that made me pause). Turns out it's a pretty condensed (and referenced <3) guide to Tolkien's thoughts on Elf-sex.

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[lynndyre]

I knew a lot of that, but I hadn't heard of the male-elf/female-human pair! Or a few of the other details~ Thanks for the link! Not changing gender when reincarnated makes sense,since they were supposedly still the same elf, not a new elf with the same fea?

But all the details to roll around in and write about! XD

...I'm sort of leery of queer_fest though, since they've been throwing out prompts for 'doing bisexuality wrong'. And deleting comments that try to discuss this.

[evandar]

I'm pretty leery of them as well because of the reasons you mentioned, but a few of the prompts they've allowed to remain are pretty interesting. The Glorfindel on I mentioned above was about him being FtM and pissed at the Valar for bringing him back in a female body. I like the asexuality representation that's going around (so far) but the absolute lack of discussion and haughty 'better than thou' attitude is annoying as hell.

I'd heard/read a lot of the info in it before as well, but the little details and the condensed style of it were what really got me interested. (Also the references, one of which made me go 'huh, I own that...somewhere', but some of which I'd never heard of.)

[lynndyre]

The policing really worries me because (for example) in Middle Earth I'd rather look at sexuality/gender in ways that would feel organic to the source, and I'd be convinced the mods would ban anything that didn't feel enough like modern issuefic.

Same! I have a few of the HoME, but I need to read through them properly.

[evandar]

It does seem very restricted to modern, RL-set fandoms instead of the fantasy/medieval ones, and therefore restricted to the social standards of...well, modern America. There are some prompts that could be altered to fit more historical fandoms, but I don't think that the way they could be written would satisfy the pickiness of the mods.

I know! I own Morgoth's Ring but I was reading that essay going 'this was in there? Really? Oh...' It kind of encouraged me to dig it out again.