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Bored of the Rings
by Henry N. Beard & Douglas C. Kenney 
Lord of the Rings
is, in my humble opinion, the greatest group of fantasy novels ever written.
J.R.R. Tolkien is a masterful storyteller. I can’t imagine his work being
surpassed. I figured I needed to say this first to stem the tide of e-mail from Lord
of the Rings fanatics who will claim that Bored of the Rings is
blasphemy.
Bored of the Rings
is the funniest parody I’ve ever read. I first read it when I was about 15,
shortly after I had read LOR. It is low-brow, toilet humor at its finest. The
new names for the characters are wonderful (Bilbo=Dildo, Frodo=Frito, Sam=Spam,
Gandalf=Goodgulf, Orcs=Narcs, etc.). The book was written in 1969 and some of
the humor is dated (some young people might not remember that Goodgulf was a
grade of Gulf gasoline for example). However, I still split my sides every time
I read this book. The scenes where Frito and his companions meet up with the
hippie, Tim Benzedrine are legendary in their own right. Even the poems and
songs from the original books are fair game for these two marksmen.
My wife also found this book to be hilarious. We
often quote our favorite passage to each other (my wife graduated from
Villanova). The scene is a parody of the company from LOR meeting up with the
Balrog. It goes like this:
As Goodgulf stepped onto the bridge the
passage echoed with an ominous dribble, dribble, and a great crowd of narcs
burst forth. In their midst was a towering dark shadow too terrible to
describe. In its hand it held a huge black globe and on its chest was
written in cruel runes, "Villanova." "Aiyee," shouted
Legolam. "A ballhog!"
There are 160 more pages like this for your
reading pleasure. Thank goodness this book is in print again. Buy a copy and
laugh until you cry!
Reviewed by: Alan
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