Letters Never Sent

[vulgarweed]

Dear Tolkien Society,

I have combed all the Letters and HoME notes for this and have yet to find a definitive answer to this question; if it's in there and I missed it, please forgive me. During a sexual encounter, would the penis of the penetrator or fellatee disappear upon entering an orifice of someone wearing the One Ring? (Assuming this person is neither Sauron nor Tom Bombadil)

Sincerely,

V, who needs to know Because of Reasons, and when I tried to contact the Professor over the Ouija board, he hung up on me.

~~~

Dear Christopher Tolkien....

NOPE. You guys will have better answers anyway.




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This is the kind of question that keeps me up at night. Perhaps I should look at my life choices.

*looks*

Yup, they're fine!

Comments

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Uhhhh. Entirely different story.

Krishna was incarnated as a human(ish) baby. His human mother was scolding him one day for putting dirt in his mouth and pulled his mouth open to look inside, as you do. Inside his mouth was baaaasically the cosmos. She, understandably, freaked out. He made her forget about it. She continued breastfeeding him. The heebie-jeebies were mine when considering the implications.

[sirius-luva.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, that story! Mea culpa. I actually have a print of some lovely art of that moment in my room back home. I first read that story when I was very young and was hence pretty 'meh' about the implications for Yasoda (also, in all the versions I read he was already too old for breastfeeding, hence the lack of heebie-jeebies on my part), but now I am picturing the universe, and then a giant nipple appears amongst the various stars and planetary systems and milk starts gushing out into the cosmos. <_<

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Yep. The version I got, they definitely mentioned he was still breastfeeding, which made me cross my arms over my chest and cringe a lot.

[sirius-luva.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now I'm cringing too. D: *side-eyes her Krishna statuette* Mind if I ask what the title of your source is and who the author is? I'd like to read this.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I'll see if I can dig it out, but it was from a "Religions of India" course in college about seven years ago, so I'm not sure I'll be able to locate it. That particular story made quite the impression, as I'm sure you can tell.