Whether they mean it or not or the art of Slash.

Today after reading Shargh newspaper's article about tintin, I remembered one of my old fantasies that tintin is gay! Actually a few years ago I read an article about Herge that told he loves a chinese boy and write "tintin in tibet" about their lost love! Today I searched internet, but I can't find any reference to this article or anything else about this matter. Perhaps one of most attractive parts of tintin stories for me is lack of beautiful-princess-who-must-be-rescued in them. Nor tintin nor captain never love a girl and except for Castafiore there is not any women in their lives and they never go after one. But then I think that we can tell the same thing about The Lord of the Rings. Maybe Frodo and Sam or/and Merry and Pipin are actually gay lovers. But then what's the importance? Are Herge or Tolkein actually wrote a gay story or not isn't important at all. As Umberto Eco masterfully wrotes in Facualts Pendelum we can connect everything to everything else and write conclusions that are according to our desire for them to be. When I read tintin, Lord of the Rings or many other stories tintin, frodo, sam, merry and pipin and ... are gay. Whether Herge or Tolkein mean them to be or not. Writers are gods in territory of their stories, but it's readers who imagine world of writers and so in the end they are the one who create, they are gods of fairy worlds.



And there are large archives of readers interpretation of famous stories. One link-library of gay Fan Fiction (Often called Slash) sites is:
http://www.sogning.dk/dir/Adult/Arts/Online_Writing/Fiction/Fan_Fiction/Slash