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.

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Dear Christopher Tolkien....

NOPE. You guys will have better answers anyway.




[Poll #1906920]



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

[sirius-luva.livejournal.com]

At first I assumed that the Ring worked something like Harry's invisibility cloak, except centred around the wearer's body; if the wearer wrapped zir hand around a cock nothing would happen (I think?) but if the wearer took it into zir orifice of choice it would be inside zir body and thus inside the Ring's invisibility cloak, so to speak, and hence also invisible.

Also, when Bilbo stole and consumed the Wood-elves' food and drink in The Hobbit they didn't notice bread and wine sloshing around in mid-air, slowly being digested by invisible stomach acid. ... although now I'm wondering how he stole; wouldn't the stuff be visible, bobbing along in mid-air, if he had taken it and snuck off? Did it become invisible once stuck in his pocket?

But after seeing the comments above, especially the one about the cross-section of the penis being visible, I've changed my mind. D: Perhaps it's still visible, just a little... indistinct, like when someone who wears glasses of a high prescription takes them off.

(And the first time I read your post I had to stop, go back and reread because I couldn't quite believe what I'd just read. XD)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAH I try to make everybody's day a little bit more surreal. XD

I'm leaning towards the notion that anything picked up and carried by the Ringwearer disappears also, although that doesn't mesh with the scene in The Hobbit where the spiders could see Bilbo's sword.

Therefore I'm leaning towards cocks not vanishing, as it would still be in the possession of its owner (one hopes). Indistinct and a little blurry would be nicely weird without being too horrifying.

[sirius-luva.livejournal.com]

It was certainly a nice break from going through witch-hunting manuals and interrogation records for an assignment and losing my appetite, so thank you. XD

I think that the scene with the spiders seeing Bilbo's sword was just an inconsistency, either in writing or in the Ring's powers for various reasons given above - I laughed at athena799's comment about what the Ring had experienced under Gollum's ownership. I quite like the ownership theory too; it makes more sense and is less horrifying than penis cross-sections. ... but what happens in D/s scenarios then? Would be it be even more indistinct and hard to see clearly, at the least?