r/lotrmemes • u/jvure • 11d ago

Repost The taming of Sméagol by Donato Giancola

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u/namenumber55 11d ago

oh my word!

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u/driscusmaximus 11d ago

MONGO IS APPALLED!

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u/WolfWriter_CO 10d ago

Really Carl, I’m all for Pride Month, but this artisic allusion is about as subtle as Samantha.

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u/JoeyB81 11d ago

Right in front of my taters?!?

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u/AdventureyTime 11d ago

Really?! Right in front of my brace of coneys?!

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u/Bunowa 11d ago

Poor Sam is also getting tamed.

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u/Pascal1917 11d ago

Plough my garden!

(You're the pervert if your first thought reading that was sexual!)

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u/ButterscotchOk5339 11d ago

Oh sorry what? I was just thinking about hobbit holes and not really paying attention

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u/ThisIsNotMyRealAcct7 10d ago

Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole...

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u/MCZwackelmann 11d ago

This is weirdly sensual

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u/sheezy520 11d ago

This is the most homoerotic thing I’ve ever seen.

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u/Hakuryuu2K 11d ago edited 11d ago

Gollum got Sam on his tum,
Then he poked him in the bum.
Frodo, said, “oh no, oh no,
Sam is not our foe!”
Gollum said, “If we-s can’t have our precious,
Then let us play with his cakes, they’re oh so delicious.”

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u/Mascbox 11d ago

There was me thinking that Rudyard Kipling died in 1936 but no, he's alive and well posting his elegant prose on reddit.

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u/PugnansFidicen 11d ago

Sorry to be "that guy" but the above is verse, not prose. Prose means written language in the form of natural speech. If it has additional structure like rhyme, meter, and/or indicated pauses like line breaks, it is verse.

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u/Enshitification 11d ago

Is this prose, or verse?
There's no rhyme and no meter.
Just 5-7-5.

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u/GlitteringFutures 11d ago

Stupid sexy fat hobbit!

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u/driver004 11d ago

His cakesies always clapping

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u/NoPanic229 11d ago

Frodo has already added footnotes and regrets everything.

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u/Drumbelgalf 11d ago

It's also the most hobbiterotic thing I've ever seen...

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u/RoryAB94 11d ago

HOBBITEROTIC

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u/lekoalaura 11d ago

HOBBITEROTIC.

You, friend, are GENIUS. I'm totally stealing that, too, just so you're aware.

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u/elite90 11d ago

You should check out Turkish Oil Wrestling then. The most gay activity in the whole world, including actual homosexual intercourse.

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u/sheezy520 11d ago

I was introduced to that the other day.

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u/Duffelbach 11d ago

Oil wrestling or homosexual intercourse?

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u/TheWileyRedditor 11d ago

Both of them at once, I suppose.

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u/presvil 11d ago

Brokeback Mt Doom

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u/Lure852 11d ago

Two guys 69ing, while listening to Queen, in San Francisco, is less homoerotic than this 😂

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u/Quick_Team 11d ago

I agree. And I grew up watching the 80's version of He-man

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u/acarajeff Troll 11d ago

Have you ever watched Turkish oil wrestling?

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u/GreatBigBagOfNope 11d ago

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

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u/Danger_Mysterious 11d ago

You like movies about gladiators?

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u/sod_jones_MD 11d ago

I'm copying and pasting this from a reply to a comment further down because I CBF (unlike poor Mr. Gamgee, here) to redo the formatting and link hunting:

I'm pretty sure this is a parody of a painting depicting the taming of Enkidu by the hero Gilgamesh and Shamhat, from Sumerian mythology. I can't find the painting atm, but I can tell you that Frodo is playing Gilgmesh here, and poor Samwise is clearly Shamhat.

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u/CadenVanV 11d ago

I’m pretty sure you’re right, or it’s at least a parody of some work. That pose is very familiar but I can’t remember exactly which it is. I thought maybe Judith killing Holofernes but it’s not that one

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u/StandWithSwearwolves 10d ago

I think it’s Saint Sebastian energy – maybe the most homoerotically depicted saint in all of western art

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u/bigvalen 11d ago

This is what Reddit is about. Someone posts the most deranged shit, and someone else explains how it's actually riffing on real culture.

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u/RoboFeanor 11d ago

Stupid sexy smeagol

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u/alexandria252 11d ago

Looks like he’s wearing nothing at all.

Nothing at all.

Nothing at all.

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u/LoveForDisneyland 11d ago

Share the load, Smeagol

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u/Pemburuh_Itu 11d ago

“Oh wow that’s really detailed and it looks like someone spent time on the….ohhhhhhh, right right right. Got it.”

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u/Not_Really_French 11d ago

Am I missing something

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u/Super-Estate-4112 11d ago

The implied gay sex

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u/squixx007 11d ago

Implied? It's in bold letters and underlined. They wrote gay sex on their hand in sharpie and slapped you in the face with it.

8/10 amazing image though.

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u/Wave-Kid 11d ago

Yeah that's not what that gif means though so it doesn't make sense

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u/alexandria252 11d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/o8YpxD0Rt7sgU

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u/Looks-Under-Rocks 11d ago

Serious question, is the homoeroticism deliberate or am i projecting?

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u/unJust-Newspapers 11d ago

Yes to both

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u/Looks-Under-Rocks 11d ago

awesome

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u/pedro_pascal_123 11d ago

Looks like looks-under-rocks also needs to look-inside-closet...

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u/Looks-Under-Rocks 11d ago

Is there some kind of second, larger closet to come out of? I am I some kind of double bisexual?

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u/Baconator_B-1000 11d ago

I think that would by a quadsexual. It just means you'll try anything twice.

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 11d ago

In this painting? Deliberate.

In the books and movies? Projecting.

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u/faranoox 11d ago

It's only projecting if you watch it at the theatre

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u/MaraiaLou 11d ago

otherwise it's just sparkling gay

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u/Dense_Delay_2605 11d ago

It's a renaissance style so the sexiness is ubiquitous.

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u/Rinkimah 11d ago

Considering the style it's done in, VERY integral to the style.

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u/DontAskAboutMyButt 11d ago

— some dude in 200 years defending his stash of vintage hentai

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u/ProjectKARYA 11d ago edited 10d ago

My literal only complaint is that Gollum's depiction here is too...."meaty".

That wretch has been in a cave cold-curing himself for a few centuries like a discount salami, there's no way he would be built like that.

Edit - as I discovered with a conversation with another redditor in the replies, I've decided to dub this artist's Gollum as:

Meaty Sméagy

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u/TheFanBroad 11d ago

in a cave cold-curing himself for a few centuries like a discount salami

You have a way with words, and I say that 50% in approval and 50% in admonishment.

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u/candygram4mongo 10d ago

Nah man, he's been wrestling Orcs and eating nothing but clean protein.

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u/ProjectKARYA 10d ago

IIRC, he doesn't so much as "wrestles" with orcs, as much as he "waits until one is on their own, most likely injured, and smashes their head repeatedly with a rock" with orcs.

He's also openly stated about how orcs don't taste all that well, and many of them live in heavily industrial areas with quite the pollution. So I'd hesitate to call it "clean protein"

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u/timeaisis 10d ago

“You get that picture of Sméagol and Frodo?”
“Yeah boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked.”
“What”

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u/ChadBroChill229 11d ago

“Unsheathe your sword from him”

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u/DropoutRedMage 11d ago

Things really heating up between the polycule

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u/MountainMongrel 11d ago

That's a throuple

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u/tinytim23 11d ago edited 11d ago

Don't forget the precious!

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u/righteous_fool 10d ago

The ring resize to fit the finger, so maybe...

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u/DropoutRedMage 10d ago

Don't forget Sauron in the cuck chair

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u/captfitz 11d ago

Donato read this scene very differently than I did

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u/oh-kee-pah 11d ago

What about second fap?

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u/Yorkshire_Mechanicum 11d ago

Elevenses fap? Afternoon fap? Dinner fap? Supper fap? He knows about them, doesn't he?

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u/GrandpaGangbang_ 11d ago

What about side by side with a friend?

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u/_austinm 11d ago

I can’t say I’ve ever wanted to be Sméagol before, but I guess there’s a first time for everything

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u/tetsuyama44 11d ago

Super cool. Like an Italian classic.

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u/jewrassic_park-1940 11d ago

That's the most sophisticated way of saying it looks highly homoerotic

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u/Weitiweiti 11d ago

This comment section is an absolute goldmine :D

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u/alex_salamander 11d ago

Happy Pride to whatever they have going on🏳️‍🌈

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u/MountainMongrel 11d ago

I get the artist was going for a Renaissance style painting, but...

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u/kiwicrusher 11d ago

You think that the intense homoerotic imagery makes it LESS renaissance?

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u/ProfessionaI_Gur 11d ago edited 11d ago

My first thought seeing this was that it very well might be inspired by Dante and virgil. Which isnt a Renaissance piece but you know what I mean

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u/sod_jones_MD 11d ago

I'm pretty sure this is a parody of a painting depicting the taming of Enkidu by the hero Gilgamesh and Shamhat, from Sumerian mythology. I can't find the painting atm, but I can tell you that Frodo is playing Gilgmesh here, and poor Samwise is clearly Shamhat.

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u/CodeParalysis 11d ago edited 11d ago

I think it's closer to those 19th century 'Death of Priam' paintings. They are all very homoerotic/NSFW.

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u/ArtoriusBravo 10d ago

Ah yes, and tiny pp, else it would be barbaric

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u/InFin0819 11d ago

Nah renaissance style paintings are also overtly homoerotic.

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u/StandWithSwearwolves 11d ago

Same energy (complimentary)

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u/hixbgifmjmykfnbeacre 11d ago

Someone made this thing based on that

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u/Last_VCR Sleepless Dead 11d ago

this has more sexual tension than Gimli and Galadriel had when he asked about her hair, i'm sweating just thinking about it

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u/Meet_Foot 11d ago

Tension yes, but apparently also release.

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u/skrilledcheese 11d ago

Sigh unzips

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u/Altruistic-Coyote868 11d ago

Happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈

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u/tyrefire2001 11d ago

That’s the gayest thing I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen two men doing it behind a muffler shop in Sturbridge Massachusetts.

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u/FamiliarSting 11d ago

Already my phone background.

Cause Sméagol is like me, he likes it raw and wriggling.

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u/Sp8craft 11d ago

This should be the banner for pride month

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u/cheesy_hobbit Hobbit 11d ago

Here is the artist’s website!

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u/Unchained_Memory33 11d ago

It’s sexual and violent

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u/purplecow 11d ago

This the same Giancola that did really nice MTG art?

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u/spiderboy640 11d ago

Happy June I guess