Critical Bromance A third distinctive feature of bromance, in the 2018 study, is that friends don’t judge each other. As Beck puts it, “A bromance will never judge you … you’re just so relaxed around ...

Not long ago, the Inklings society at Brown University invited me to give a talk on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. I decided to speak on the topic of “bromance,” an emotionally and physically ...