Gay gandalf
It’s part of why the queer fandom has given us interpretations of a transgender Éowyn, bisexual Arwen, and gay Gandalf.
Meanwhile, openly gay poet WH Auden, once said: “No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy.” As one of the most influential fantasy texts of the 20th century, literary analysis has dug deep and found rich LGBTQ+ representation and metaphor.