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Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Paperback – July 1, 1993

by Harvard Lampoon (Author), Henry Beard (Author), Douglas C. Kenney (Author)

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176 pages
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English
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Roc Trade
Publication date

July 1, 1993
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18 years and up
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5.44 x 0.5 x 7.96 inches
ISBN-10

0451452615
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978-0451452610
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Written in the gloaming of their college days, just before they started National Lampoon, Douglas C. Kenney and Henry N. Beard wrote Bored of the Rings. It's dated--references to Nixon, drugs, and consumer products circa 1969 crowd every page--but darn it, Bored of the Rings is still funny nearly 30 years later: "'Goodbye, Dildo,' Frito said, stifling a sob. 'I wish you were coming with us.'

'Ah, yes. But I'm too old for that sort of thing now,' said the old boggie, feigning a state of total quadriplegia. 'Anyway, I have a few small gifts for you,' and he produced a lumpy parcel, which Frito opened somewhat unenthusiastically in view of Dildo's previous going-away present [the ring]. But the package only contained a short, Revereware sword, a bulletproof vest full of moth holes, and several well-thumbed novellas with titles like Elf Lust and Goblin Girl..."

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Roc Trade; Anniversary edition (July 1, 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0451452615
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0451452610
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.44 x 0.5 x 7.96 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,721,462 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,080 in Parody
- #4,616 in Humorous Fantasy (Books)
- #6,578 in Humorous American Literature

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Lyle R. Smith

Elf-dog, Pig of a dwarf, Toymaker. Gold-digger. Flit. Wart.

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2018

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I read this when I was twelve. I laughed my head off. Because I was twelve. My nostalgia took hold of me and forced nearly eleven dollars from my hands before I realised what I was doing.

After a couple pages, I realized the twelve year old me was.....well...twelve.

Sometimes the fog of nostalgia erases the finer points of an experience, as was the case here. I stopped after reading those few pages. Perhaps my son, who is still twelve, will find it humorous, thus keeping me from regretting my purchase.
Beyond the epithet exchange between Legolam and Gimlet:

"Elf-dog," hissed Gimlet, retrieving his beard.
"Pig of a dwarf," suggested Legolam.
"Toymaker."
"Gold-digger."
"Flit."
"Wart."

I found little to be entertaining. I curse my solid seating in adulthood, including the scant, flat,monochromatic literary taste I have acquired, for my disheartening reintroduction to my childhood memories.

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Lora S.

A parody of LOTR and of us

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2019

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Bored of the Rings is if you can’t guess, a parody of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. It also seems to me to be something of a parody of American society in the late twentieth century. One indication of this is the mention in the Boreward of this approximately fortieth anniversary edition that since the end of its original story the two primary villains had moved to Wall Street, managing hedge funds and venture capital groups (Sorhed) and Washington, as lobbyists and political advisers (Serutan).

Of course, the heroes of the piece are the boggies – Frito Bugger, his servant Spam, and his cousins Moxie and Pepsi.
The boggies are sort of like Hobbits, except they have tails, and are not nearly as nice or as noble. In fact, none of the characters in the book is really very nice. They are all varying degrees of gross, and nothing about Lower Middle Earth, where they are having their adventures, is particularly clean. This is a little off-putting, at least for me. But otherwise, this book is a lot of fun.

I am sort of impressed that the authors could manage to parallel the three-volume Lord of the Rings so closely in a single short volume. Of course, one way they managed to cut the size of the story was by eliminating most of the few female characters that appear in the original, leaving only Hashberry the hippie-chick girlfriend of Tim Benzadrine and Eorache, daughter of Eorlobe, leader of the sheep-riding Roi-Tanners. Eorache replaces both the lady Arwen and the princess Eowen from LOTR and thus ignites a scene where Arrowroot, son of Arrowshirt (the Aragorn character) and Farahslax are forced to battle it out over the lone female.

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andrew delouise

Quick easy read and funny to boot

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2020

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Having read,and in fact,just finished Bored of the Rings, here's my review.
If you've read the Tolkein book,and/or seen the movies then you're familiar with the story. This book gives you an idea on how Tolkien's classic would've turned out if he had a nervous breakdown at the start of writing it. Starting off the first few pages as silly and goofy it spirals into full blown lunacy, particularly when the Jolly Green Giant shows up. Read this every chance I got,at home and in the break room at work,where I was stifling laughs to the point I sounded like Muttley from Wacky Races and my coworkers would smile politely as they quickly moved to the other side of the room. Some may find this corny or stupid,but I loved it. Haven't laughed so hard at a book since Good Omens.

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W. Abraham

My original went AWOL.

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2013

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I have been trying to locate a reasonably priced copy of this book for years - literally! Finally, after 43 years, they have reprinted it!!!

This is the book my in-laws used to quote snippits of! And for Christmas one year we gave my Father-in-law a corduroy thesaurus with dangling participles!

If you are a fan of Tolkien's books, will will laugh yourself silly over this irreverent parody. If you aren't a fan of Tolkien's books, you will still find humor in reading this book, especially if you are a Boomer, simply because of the dated references made into names and locations.

So travel through the Nagio Marsh and through the Evelyn Wood with boggies Frito Bugger, Spam Gangree, Pepsi and Moxie, Stomper the Ranger (Arrowroot of Arrowshirt), Goodgulf the wizard, Legolam, the elf and Gimlet the dwarf on their quest to throw the ring of power into the zazu pits of Fordor and destroy Sorhed's power once and for all!

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Joseph Dredd

Just great.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2020

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Years since I read it. Nice seeing it again.

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Gift for a friend

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 18, 2018

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Gift for a friend but I read through some of it and it had me chuckling

Martin Cranshaw

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2018

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Splendid

Angela d.

Very quick delivery.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2020

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Very pleased with product. Bought it for a Xmas present.

ian wallace

HELP-i need stitches!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2015

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Absolute giggle, never stopped laughing from start to finish. The better you know the Lord of the rings the more you laugh. Thought i needed stitches at one point.

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