The rule I've found is if there's any single thing wrong with a comment it gets downvoted even if it's 90% true.

In this case, readers here clearly want to believe Sam+Frodo was just brotherly love, but if Sam were gay what would he have done differently from the books? Nothing. And "trimming the verge" does sound like a euphemism for something.

People say Oh Tolkien was Catholic he could never write a gay character - as if the Catholic church hasn't been full of gay pedos for like 1500 years now. Tolkien didn't seem personally affected by it, but I bet he was wise to it. And didn't Martin Luther famously say "I'm sick of this gay shit" (in German of course) when he made his own sect?

edit: Sam's marriage to Rose could be a so-called lavender marriage. It's three long novels full of elaborate prose and the only evidence Sam isn't gay is a one-liner that he got married/had kids - and that he was conflicted about it. Ok...

The rule I've found is if there's any single thing wrong with a comment it gets downvoted even if it's 90% true.

In this case, readers here clearly want to believe Sam+Frodo was just brotherly love, but if Sam were gay what would he have done differently from the books? Nothing. And "trimming the verge" does sound like a euphemism for something.

People say Oh Tolkien was Catholic he could never write a gay character - as if the Catholic church hasn't been full of gay pedos for like 1500 years now. Tolkien didn't seem personally affected by it, but I bet he was wise to it. And didn't Martin Luther famously say "I'm sick of this gay shit" (in German of course) when he made his own sect?