{"id":41101,"date":"2023-06-05T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41101"},"modified":"2023-06-04T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T05:56:46","slug":"on-superntrlunderg-for-june-celebrating-the-bromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/06\/05\/on-superntrlunderg-for-june-celebrating-the-bromance\/","title":{"rendered":"On SuperntrlUnderg for June &#8212; Celebrating the Bromance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-28238\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>&#8220;Hold on a minute, mate&#8221;, you may be thinking &#8212; isn&#8217;t your <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> theme for 2023 the &#8220;Band of Brothers&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>If you <em>are<\/em> thinking that, then you&#8217;re quite right: it is! But as I assert in Supernatural Underground&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/from-band-of-brothers-to-bromance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1 June post<\/a>, <em>&#8220;&#8230;my premise, of course, is that the bromance is both integral to, and a natural extension of, the &#8220;band of brothers&#8221; in Fantasy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41102\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Legolas_Aragorn_bromance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Legolas_Aragorn_bromance.jpg 232w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Legolas_Aragorn_bromance-150x140.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest, dear readers, is history. The bromance is, indeed, the subject of this month&#8217;s post. From Tolkien&#8217;s <strong><em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/strong>, in which bromances abound, to m&#8217;own <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall of Night<\/a> series; or Guy Gavriel Kay&#8217;s <strong><em>The Lions of Al-Rassan<\/em><\/strong> to T Frohock&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfrohock.com\/los-nefilim-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Nefilim<\/a>, Fantasy literature features bromances galore.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41103 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lions-of-Al-Rassan-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lions-of-Al-Rassan-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lions-of-Al-Rassan-92x150.jpg 92w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Lions-of-Al-Rassan.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just celebrating a few of &#8217;em on the SU &#8212; but to find out more, click on:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/from-band-of-brothers-to-bromance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From &#8220;Band of Brothers&#8221; &#8212; to Bromance<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>And if you have some favourite examples, please do share with a comment, either here or on the SU post. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10770\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10770\" class=\"wp-image-10770 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-covCD9D-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-covCD9D-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-covCD9D-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-covCD9D.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yep, there &#8220;may&#8221; be bromance herein \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hold on a minute, mate&#8221;, you may be thinking &#8212; isn&#8217;t your Supernatural Underground theme for 2023 the &#8220;Band of Brothers&#8221;? If you are thinking that, then you&#8217;re quite right: it is! But as I assert in Supernatural Underground&#8217;s 1 June post, &#8220;&#8230;my premise, of course, is that the bromance is both integral to, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41106,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41101\/revisions\/41106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}