Perhaps most unfortunate of all is the manner in which the authors condense what took Tolkien nearly 1000 pages to write into the span of 160 pages.

Had they occurred in a modern book, I would have believed the authors were trying to earn some laughs through shock value. This scene, and several others, are neither funny nor do they advance the plot. At one point, Frito (the stand-in for Frodo in this tale) dons blackface and performs a minstrel show to escape the story's version of the Ringwraiths. What's worse is some of the offensive and unfunny jokes. Tolkien deliberately wrote to evoke an older time, 'Bored of the Rings' suffers from its dated humor and references. The Harvard Lampoon's parody of 'Lord of the Rings,' though entertaining, is quite dated. 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. 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 classic parody of The Lord of the Rings is back! With a brand-new “boreword” by Henry Beard. From the legendary comedic scholars who illuminated the tour de force Twilight so brilliantly in the New York Times bestselling Nightlight comes The Hunger Pains, a hilarious send-up of the immensely popular dystopian young adult novel, The Hunger Games.

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