Who do you find more attractive from Lord of the Rings: Aragorn or Legolas?

[diplodocus@mastodon.social]

@LilahTovMoon Awful lotta “straight” men saying they’re attracted to the very male-coded Aragorn…

[trashheap@tech.lgbt]

@LilahTovMoon I worked in a discount theater one summer a few years into the Peter Jackson trilogy, as an usher. Tearing tickets and directing folks to their proper theater and telling them to enjoy the show. A lot of people though tuned you out, on the theater directions.

SO I made a game of waiting and occasionally telling folks with tickets for LOTR "Enjoy Legolas" instead of saying "Enjoy the Show"

Occasionally getting knowing chuckles, from the ones who were indeed there to do so.

[erisceleste@tech.lgbt]

@graydon to add to which, doesn't mean we couldn't attempt to answer the top question - the meaning of that answer is already different for different people - but would pollute the data by doing so

@LilahTovMoon

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@Diplodocus
I'd be curious to see the physical attraction vs idea /character attraction gap.

Aragorn is a king and is far more main character so gets more development. I suspect a lot of straight men are more attracted to the idea or being him, vs Orlando's playing Legolas which has more female coding.
@LilahTovMoon

[dofain@mastodon.social]

@LilahTovMoon where lesbian dragon?

[alonsiee@mstdn.party]

@LilahTovMoon to be honest, nothing from that

[jellyfish_umbrella@tech.lgbt]

@AstroHyde @PalmAndNeedle @LilahTovMoon I think we can safely presume that Logolas and Aragorn wouldn't win any any votes in that case

[palmandneedle@norden.social]

@jellyfish_umbrella we stan a boisterous short king

@AstroHyde @LilahTovMoon

[jen@cultofshiv.wtf]

@LilahTovMoon I think if i was younger legolas and now I'm older Aragorn

[claretheamazon@mastodon.online]

@LilahTovMoon I would also be curious to see this broken down by neurodivergence. My working theory is that autistics prefer Legolas, while ADHDers prefer Aragorn.

[michaeltbacon@social.coop]

@LilahTovMoon

I'm mostly influenced by my spouse, who was hard core Team Aragorn when all her friends were Team Legolas.

[melezioh@mstdn.games]

@LilahTovMoon did not expect me to be in the majority of my group (Straight man Aragorn) but pretty significant majority there.

[joandaro@mstdn.games]

@LilahTovMoon fuuuuck it's harder to figure out my choice than to figure out my category

[joscelyntransient@chaosfem.tw]

@LilahTovMoon Is it weird that as a bi woman, I want to answer Aragorn, but as a lesbian I want to answer Legolas?

[janetgrbr@mastodon.social]

@LilahTovMoon No.

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

@JoscelynTransient @LilahTovMoon the fellowship of the ring was a polycule

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@PalmAndNeedle @LilahTovMoon

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@LilahTovMoon Intriguing that enbies are the only group picking Legolas by any significant margin.

[rupert@mastodon.nz]

@LilahTovMoon 34% of respondents are straight men, and Arwen doesn't even make the final round? I blame Liv Tyler.
Arwen is canonically the third most beautiful woman in history and poor Liv barely scrapes the top 10.
[Edit, see? My subconscious knows she's not even the most beautiful Liv]

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@dalias @LilahTovMoon :3