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Clarification: I'm not actually sitting here all po-faced and disapproving at the fact that half of you write LotR slash. I mean, you knew that... Actually I find the movies very slashy, embarrassingly so at some points. ("Aragorn never did that in the book! ...Oh, wait, he did.") The books don't strike me that way, and likely never will, but I am capable of objective textual analysis - so when I went into the theatre for FotR I knew in the back of my mind that it was going to be slashy, had to be if they managed to capture the book properly, because slash is essentially a sort of trompe l'oeil effect and certain types of male interactions will always read thusly when played out between two attractive actors onscreen. And what interactions there were Tolkien had in spades, so. ^^;

That being said the more the slash resembles/pastiches the book the more it makes me twitchy. I've tried in good faith, and it just does. So I find myself in the insanity-inducing position of preferring the high-school AUs and whatnot. At least there I know where I stand. ^^;;;;