Frodo and Sam: more than just friends?

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Mystery solved! This is why I’ve had that sappy 1985 Atlantic Starr hit “Secret Lovers” (“How could something so wrong be so right?”) in my head for a week. It’s the music in a new TBS promo I saw recently that suggests that Lord of the Rings characters Sam and Frodo were gay lovers, not just devoted, muddy, platonic hobbits. Some think the promo is hysterical; others say it’s downright blasphemous. There has to be some in-between.

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