I strongly suspect everyone who likes those books is in love with Winnetou to some degree... the author and Old Shatterhand definitely are, after all. :-)

And they're so amazingly slashy it's just wonderful - even for the 19th century, which was so much less shy about portraying loving friendship than today's sadly sterile fictional friendships tend to be.

Thank you for the offer of your icon - and the prospect of others! :-)