anything but legolas/gimli is out of character!
from the yahoo group axe_bow. the rant is quite long and covers a wide variety of pairings.

Now, I remember reading the handful of LOTR slash fics available on the net pre- movie and in general I was very pleased with them... . And then... Shock. Confusion. Frodo/Sam, Merry/Pippin, Aragorn/Boromir, Frodo/Aragorn, Merry/Pippin/Boromir, Legolas/Boromir, Frodo/Legolas, Legolas/Elrond, Legolas/Haldir, Legolas/Glorfindel, Legolas/any random Elf, Legolas/OC, Legolas/Aragorn, Legolas/Aragorn, Legolas/Aragorn...

the thing about aragorn/boromir is that, even if well-written, it can't have a happily-ever-after ending. Aragorn/Boromir. ...And there *are* good fics in this ship. Just please try to remember that Boromir *dies*, what for some people sort of takes the fun out of hot PWPs.

for frodo/aragorn, she's not going to burden us with the obvious and painful arguments. We are not going here, and that's final. A good slash writer can pull off almost anything but there are things more difficult to pull off than others.

for certain pairings that seem to largely involve legolas, there's no possible rationale. Legolas/Boromir, Frodo/Legolas, etc. What's *that*? Throw-Fellowship-together-and-do-a-random-binary-combination exercise?

legolas/elrond is apparently fertile grounds for bdsm. Legolas/Elrond. In the past, or as one night-stand, why not? May work. Only, please try to write Legolas as an equal partner for Elrond. not that she has anthing against it, per se! Yes, I do like *good* fiction of this genre, although I don't see it L/G-wise.

legolas/haldir is okay on a physical level only. I could picture Legolas (who represses his feelings for Gimli) with Haldir, at least at the beginning of the stay in Lorien.

and legolas/aragorn is a sore point. At first, I thought, OK. Pre- Quest or early in the Quest (read: pre-Gimli), why not? As a stress-relief, perhaps? but really, there's only so much you can take when the pairing flies in the face of TWO canon pairings! Why is Aragorn cheating on Arwen? Why is Legolas cheating on Gimli?! Don't we deserve at least an explanation? (I am not going to rant how OOC is Legolas in 95% of these fics. Some things shouldn't even be mentioned in a decent company.)