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Beutlin
Rivendell
Nov 18 2012, 12:51am
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Odd article: Are Hobbits' feet hot?
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http://www.salon.com/2012/11/17/are_hobbits_feet_hot/
“…So where is Eros lurking in “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”? In plain sight, baby. Tolkien may have thought he’d squeezed it out of every conceivable corner, but it came popping out the bottom of the hobbits’ pants legs.
It’s those feet, man. They’re easier to overlook when you’re reading the novels, but onscreen, they’re constantly in your face. They’re naked and they’re enormous and they’re hairy. It’s like Tolkien’s efforts to quash all sexual imagery were so relentless that the resultant, inadvertent eruption took the most flagrant, aggressive, and homoerotic form imaginable.
Freud himself argued that the foot is a penis substitute, and foot fetishism is probably the most common of all the various sex kinks. (I’m not particularly prone to it myself, but there’s a flash of Viggo Mortensen’s naked feet in one of the “Rings” films, and the image, so unexpected, knocked me flat.) So the presence of the titanically barefoot hobbits is just a leeetle bit disconcerting — especially since, from the ankles up, they’re made to seem prepubescent, even childlike…”
Ceterum censeo montem artis magicae atrae esse delendum.
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Odd article: Are Hobbits' feet hot?
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Beutlin
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Nov 18 2012, 12:51am
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I hate when that happens.
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SirDennisC
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Nov 18 2012, 1:33am
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What in
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demnation
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Nov 18 2012, 11:29am
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On Feet
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Noel Q. von Schneiffel
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Nov 18 2012, 6:30pm
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Hobbits didnt have big feet
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imin
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Nov 19 2012, 12:36am
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Films versus books
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Elthir
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Nov 19 2012, 7:16pm
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yeah i know :)
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imin
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Nov 19 2012, 10:45pm
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In Japan, everything is hot
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Tigero
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Nov 19 2012, 8:26pm
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:} Ooooookie dokie.
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grammaboodawg
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Nov 19 2012, 11:13pm
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