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Bored of the Rings: A Parody Paperback – October 30, 2012

by The Harvard Lampoon (Author)

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First published in 1969, the New York Times bestseller Bored of the Rings is back—and just in time for the major motion picture release of The Hobbit. This classic parody of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional universe is a timeless comedic masterpiece.

The classic parody of The Lord of the Rings is back! With a brand-new “boreword” by Henry Beard.

The Power almighty rests in this Lone Ring.

The Power, alrighty, for doing your Own Thing.

If broken or busted, it cannot be remade

If found, send to Sorhed (the postage is prepaid).

It’s up to Boggie Frito Bugger and his band of misfits—including inept wizard Goodgulf Grayteeth, halfwit Spam Gangree, twins Moxie and Pepsi, and Arrowroot of Arrowshirt—to carry the Great Ring to Fordor and cast it into the Zazu Pits.

Can they avoid death by hickey tree and escape the dread ballhog? Can the fellowship overcome the narcs and Nozdruls hounding their every move and save Lower Middle Earth once and for all? Yes, of course—this isn’t Hamlet, you know.

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The Harvard Lampoon debuted in February 1876 and is the world’s longest continually published humor magazine. The Harvard Lampoon is also the author of Nightlight and The Hunger Pains. Visit HarvardLampoon.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1451672667
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books; 0 edition (October 30, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781451672664
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1451672664
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.5 x 8 inches

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Deb H

Hilarious

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024

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50 years ago someone bought a copy of this book for me. I laughed out loud all the way through it. My kids read it when they got old enough, and I purchased this copy for a grandchild. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did.

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Good Time Sioux

Bored is Anything But

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2011

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I read this book when it first came out, many years ago. I was a Lampoon fan, and took a chance. This was even before I'd read any of Tolkein's works. I laughed until I couldn't breathe, and read that book a dozen times or more in the 3 or 4 months I had it.
I was, at the time, stationed in SE Asia. It was hot, uncomfortable, and just not very friendly. This book was so funny I could forget where I was for a while. After I'd dog-eared it beyond repair, carried it in my pocket so much it was curved to the shape of my...posterior, and had gotten it wet from the explosive rainstorms that swept across the area, I "loaned" it to one of my shipmates.
Yep, last I ever saw of it. But I know it found a good home.
So, anyway, now that I've read the Tolkein trilogy, seen the movies, taken my grandkids to see the movies, and even BOUGHT THE FREAKIN' DVDs, I decided to see if Bored was still as funny.
I looked in Amazon, and, after a long, extensive search (almost 7 seconds), I located a...well, a couple...ok, Amazon had like 40 copies available, from a bunch of different sources, and I (of course) ordered the next-to-the-cheapest one. Got it when Amazon said I would, and read it again.
OK, so I read it all once, and parts of it a dozen times. Yep, still funny. While I will admit the name-thing is hilarious, what Lampoon did with the plot, setting, and sequence-of-circumstances is mind-bending. This is an entertaining book on so many levels.
While I can now compare it, as I read it, to the original "script", my grandson laughs at it, mainly because of the names of the "cast & crew", as they say. All in all, it is a good read any time. I've loaned it to my grandson, but twice, so far, he's brought it over to read parts to me that he thinks are especially funny. Good to know the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I figure that if it's funny to his sense of humor, I'm alright, after all.

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Dizzy

A hoot if you’re of this generation.

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2023

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For someone who both loves LOTR and has lived through the times when this was written, this is a hoot. Later generations may miss some references, but the humor of others can be appreciated by all. “Pity stayed his hand. ‘A pity I am out of bullets,’ he thought.”

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Lora S.

A parody of LOTR and of us

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 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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An annotated Bored of the Rings!

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2022

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Ah, Bored of the Rings, the solid gilt standard for Tolkien parodies.

This edition is, as far as I can tell, a faithful copy of the original, but--as my title says--it includes annotations, which is a big deal. Many of the jokes, especially the names, haven't aged well, and this edition explains many of them in footnotes. Finally I get the jokes behind "Gilthorpial", "Zazu Pits", and "Serutan". In a nice extra, the annotations also have a tongue-in-cheek bit. A good example is "Good Gulf was a premium gasoline offered by Gulf Oil, which fell out of popularity once arson became illegal."

My only real complaint about this edition is that there aren't enough annotations. I had to look up names like Nesselrode, Oxydol, and Lavalier, for instance, and I still don't get Farahslax.

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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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Scubaron

A very funny parody.

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2023

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It cracked me up.

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Matthew Poehler

Utterly Rediculous!

Reviewed in Australia on October 4, 2022

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I read this quite literally decades ago, and it is still as silly and frivolous as it was then.

I loved it.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on March 12, 2017

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Loved this since I was a teenager.

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Dennis B.

Exactly what I wanted.

Reviewed in Germany on February 22, 2017

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Already have the paperback version, but this hard cover book is much better. Nice design and looks very good. Thanks

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Chris CHAN

Bored - but never boring ...

Reviewed in Japan on July 22, 2002

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I first picked up this book in a musty secondhand store somewhere, and I remember the disdain with which I peered down from my Tolkien-loving ivory tower at this flimsy throwaway. Ha. Why do these people bother I wondered. But then I read the first few pages. And the next few. And would have read the whole thing standing right there in the shop if I hadn't been too embarrassed. See, when you read this book you're going to laugh, long, loud, and hard. I'm now buying my fourth and fifth copies and I recommend that you buy two yourself as well. One for you and one as a "loaner". Because you're going to want to lend this book out. And it won't be coming back. Whoever reads this will fall under its spell. And the more you love JRR the more you're going to love this book.
If you have ever read LOTR all the way through, and you have any sense of humour at all, buy this book. It may just be the best spoof ever.

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The Orc's Revenge

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2001

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This book seems to take people in two ways: screamingly funny or 'I don't get it'. To find out which you are, try these two sample jokes (knowledge of Tolkien's original assumed).
1. When travelling through the underground passages in the dwarves' range of mountains, one of the Fellowship happens to refer to Fordor (= Mordor). Immediately Goodgulf (= Gandalf) the wizard rounds on him, with the same portentous tone of the original - but with slightly clumsier wording. 'Speak not of that dark place in this dark place!' he growls.
2. As in the original, the Elf queen hands out gifts to our travelling heros. These include a diamond shaped pear and a plover's egg as big as an emerald.
If these do nothing for you, save your money. They crack me up.

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