Were merry and pippin gay

TVGO: Wow! Monaghan: And then there's stuff about me and Billy being lovers because we're such good friends. Monaghan: Yes, Billy's been seeing the same girl now for about three years, which is terribly heartbreaking to me.

No, that's not true. And just how close were boon companions Merry and Pippin? Here, Monaghan dishes the dirt. The legendary duo played Marry and Pippin in Peter Jackson’s original trilogy. TVGO: Playing hobbits probably helped the rumors.

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TVGO: Um, since you brought it up Monaghan: There's been scandalous gay rumors like that flying around me and Elijah [Wood]and me and Billy. Monaghan: Laughs That's a great joke! No more long winter nights together like we used to.

Or were those hairy-footed hobbits — and their cute portrayers — just friends? Are you still unattached?

Sexuality in The Lord : And just how close were boon companions Merry and Pippin? Or were those hairy-footed hobbits — and their cute portrayers — just friends? Here, Monaghan dishes the dirt

Monaghan: Why? TVGO: They sure seem gay. We can be overjoyed to be in each other's company. TV Guide Online: You've got a big female fan base. Specifically, TV Guide Online wants the scoop on those gay rumors — both on-screen and off.

Dominic Monaghan: I am. There's never any stuff like "Oooh, maybe they're gay. But as the Dec. Was there ever anything behind Frodo and Sam's legendary longing looks? Asking about their thoughts on the Lord of the Rings fans “shipping” their fictional characters, Boyd recalled a “piece of art” stemming from a scene that featured Merry and Pippin both “holding each other topless”.

The joke goes like this: Why are hobbits like Englishmen? I remember reading in the press that I had stayed at Elijah's house — and [that] we had made up some rumor that I was seeing Elijah's sister, so that Elijah and I could continue our lurid affair with each other.

It's an interesting thing, because you look at Kate Hudson and Liv Tyleractresses who are tight [friends]. I'm working so much. The scholar of English David LaFontaine, in The Gay and Lesbian Review, writes that The Lord of the Rings achieved cult status and large sales, but was mainly excluded from literary study, partly because fantasy was despised as a genre, but partly also because of the "powerful undercurrent of same-sex love within the realm of Middle-earth".

Definite Bert and Ernie vibes here: Merry and Pippin lived together for some time at Crickhollow, and there was much coming and going between Buckland and Bag End. The two young Travellers cut a great dash in the Shire with their songs and their tales and their finery, and their wonderful parties.

It cracks us both up. I still enjoy female company, but in terms of anything really serious, that's not really where my head's at.