[Alkhin]

I'll check with her once she gets home for the summer - she's temporarily at a low bandwidth and so not able to do that sort of thing.

thank you! no hurry here!!

Sometimes it's not even from the fandom

ooo that's even better!! The one icon I have of pippin walking in with Gandalf is lyrics taken from an enya song...one I always think of when it comes to Pippin. It fits him so perfectly.

POB stuff is a bit harder to come by though...I had one icon made that quotes directly from one of the books and not the movie. What has been grossing me out with a majority of the LJ people is they are SO slash oriented. Its sick really to come across an otherwise nicely done icon but it has obvious slash implications and all one can do is think "EW!" I feel badly for these girls. They do not know Real Men...even when its right there in the book before them.

[JenB]

Yeah, it's really odd how much of fandom is slash-oriented. I got out of Harry Potter fandom when that became so dominant. I mean, good grief! Just because a story doesn't have many girls doesn't mean the guys are swishy, right?

I will admit my friend has a slightly slashier than I like tone sometimes, but it's usually fairly mild.

[Rose in RoseBear]

No, they don't understand real men. Real men are hairy and sweaty and moody and testosterone-y; they need and want and demand and insist on responses and committments and promises and vulnerabilities these women are afraid to give.