Quote Originally Posted by Lukha View Post
I dunno, any series can inspire few slash fanfics, but when LotR has literally tens of thousands of them there must be something there that people are seeing.
Not really. It just tells you that it's a very big fandom with a considerable amount of people who want to see that subtext, regardless of whether it's blatant or wishful thinking.

At very least, the question to ask isn't "how many fanfics are there" but "how many are there relative to the overall size of the fandom".