That’s an awfully weird interpretation of, “don’t go where I cannot follow.” That doesn’t sound like the pinnacle of romance when it also makes perfect sense from a stalker, or the FBI agent assigned to your case. It doesn’t specify any level of endearment.
No, it isn’t a weird interpretation because it’s made with the context of when the quote is said. This is also referenced by the last line in the post. This is the context:
Then as quickly as he could he cut away the binding cords and laid his head upon Frodo’s breast and to his mouth, but no stir of life could he find, nor feel the faintest flutter of the heart. Often he chafed his master’s hands and feet, and touched his brow, but all were cold. ‘Frodo, Mr. Frodo!’ he called. Don’t leave me here alone! It’s your Sam calling. Don’t go where I can’t follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo! O wake up, Frodo, me dear, me dear. Wake up!’ Then anger surged over him, and he ran about his master’s body in a rage, stabbing the air, and smiting the stones, and shouting challenges. Presently he came back, and bending looked at Frodo’s face, pale beneath him in the dusk. And suddenly he saw that he was in the picture that was revealed to him in the mirror of Galadriel in Lo´ rien: Frodo with a pale face lying fast asleep under a great dark cliff. Or fast asleep he had thought then. ‘He’s dead!’ he said. ‘Not asleep, dead!’ And as he said it, as if the words had set the venom to its work again, it seemed to him that the hue of the face grew livid green. And then black despair came down on him, and Sam bowed to the ground, and drew his grey hood over his head, and night came into his heart, and he knew no more.
Yes, in context. It is not in context in the post, and the language itself leaves no room for interpretation.
I have a feeling ‘gay little gnome’ is gonna pop into my head for the rest of my life every time the hobbits come up.
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You mean those gay little gnomes?
Why am i giggling like an idiot.
They were not gay, they were queer. It’s said quite a lot in the first chapters :)
“‘Hobbits!’ he thought. “Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There’s something mighty queer behind this.’ He was right, but he never found out any more about it.”
The thinking fox!
Also sounds like a controlling person would say
It’s a request, not a demand. The additional shit was added by some rando on the internet.
I do like the idea of Gandalf calling them gay little gnomes tho. It makes me laugh.
It sounds more like someone holding someone else back to me.
“Don’t go to college. You know I’m too dumb to get in!”
Didn’t Padme say something like that to Anakin?
Yea very similar:
Padme Amidala: [steps away]I can’t believe what I’m hearing. Obi-Wan was right. You’ve changed.
Darth Vader: I don’t want to hear any more about Obi-Wan. The Jedi turned against me, don’t you turn against me.
Padme Amidala: I don’t know you anymore. Anakin, you’re breaking my heart. You’re going down a path I can’t follow.
I feel like there’s a tautology hidden there.
It sounds more possessive than romantic
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“don’t go where i can’t follow” is literally the most romantic thing anyone has ever said. it’s like i’ll let you bring me anywhere—far from home, far from the places and people i love, so long as you stay with me. i’ll let you walk into danger and through hell, but i will not let you go where i can’t go with you. that is where i draw the line
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Didn’t one of those gay little gnomes from lord of the rings say this
