Bored of the Rings by The Harvard Lampoon

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.Ĭan 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. But Bored of the Rings does have a slightly more interesting current running through it: like Lolita, it took an easy, marketable hook, and used it to create a cutting satire of shallow.

If found, send to Sorhed (the postage is prepaid). The Power, alrighty, for doing your Own Thing. The Power almighty rests in this Lone Ring. The Signet first edition cover, which parodies the LOTR paperback cover by artist Barbara Remington 1, was drawn by Michael K. Subjects Nonfiction Humor (Nonfiction) Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. It was published in 1969 by Signet for the Harvard Lampoon. Bored of the Rings ebook &mid A Parody By The Harvard Lampoon. AS TRADITION would have it, parody at Harvard has long been the Lampoons turf. It was first published in 1969 by Signet for the Harvard Lampoon. This short novel was written by Henry Beard and Douglas Kenney, who later founded National Lampoon. Bored of the Rings, a parody by the Harvard Lampoon. The classic parody of The Lord of the Rings is back! With a brand-new “boreword” by Henry Beard. Bored of the Rings (BOTR) is a short satirical novel by Henry N.

Tolkien’s fictional universe is a timeless comedic masterpiece. 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.

Bored of the Rings by The Harvard Lampoon