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Summary: the best i can say about it is that it got more people to
Review: read the lord of the rings. The book was cleverly worded. I just hope that Tolkien was dead when this was written, even if he wasn't he probably would of turned over is his grave.
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Summary: Love it or hate it?
Review: This seems to be a book that people either love or hate, but maybe it depends on whether you read Tolkien first, or "Bored of the Rings" first.I discovered this book by accident in someone else's library, before ever hearing about Tolkien... and loved it so much I went on to read "The Hobbit" and LOTR, and am eternally grateful to "Bored of the Rings" for pointing the way. Sure, the LOTR trilogy is an "impressive, truly masterful work of genius and imagination," the best piece of literature in the English language if you ask me, but even so, I consider "Bored of the Rings" to be a comic masterpiece, and one of my favorite books. I only wish they would put out another edition with the original cover illustration. A hardback edition would be nice also.
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Summary: Pointless
Review: Let me get one thing straight first. I really don't mind a satire of LOTR. But this book sure ain't it. This has to be the most BORING, STUPID book i have ever read. EVER.
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Summary: The title says describes the book--Boring
Review: I cannot see how this book can possibly be funny. All the authors do is change the original names to dumb objects and change the attitudes of everyone. I cannot believe how dumb and stupid this book is.
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Summary: A hilarious read!
Review: We read this book on a road trip from Chicago to Denver. I must say that it is the best cure for Iowa, Nebraska and the flat boring landscape of Illinois. More importantly, it is FUNNY! The puns are awful, the characters are a mockery of the original and will gleefully offend any Tolkien enthuisiast. Buy it, read it and pass it on.
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Summary: Come ON, people
Review: Stop taking yourselves so seriously. How can you love something SO much that it's not even possible for you to poke fun at it. Lord of the Rings is a classic series. I've read all of them countless times since I was a kid. And this book is hysterical. Why? Because the authors did their research, and this volume isn't meant to be cruel, just funny. Why don't some think so? Because many of you die-hards are unfamiliar with the concept of SATIRE. It's not meant to be insulting. Sure, some satire is. But this is simply good-natured ribbing. Get a grip on reality and stop taking what isn't even real life so seriously. This isn't a cross-burning, people. It's only a book. If you're going to be outraged about something, be a little more picky about it.
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Summary: A Comment...
Review: I have a good sense of humor, and I love a good laugh, but this is not my kind of book. However, I could not help but notice a comment made in a review a little farther down the page. The writer claimed that without this book, Tolkien would have long been forgotten. I could't disagree with his statement more. Most of my friends and I have grown up loving Tolkien and his Middle Earth, yet I had never heard anything about this parody. There is a reason Tolkien has been dubbed "The Father of Modern Fantasy". He was the first author to sucessfully take classic myth and legend and shape it into the fantasy novel. The genre of fantasy could not be where it is today if Tolkien hadn't paved the way. There will always be room in people's hearts for his stories. In contrast to that statement, I believe it is the other way around--this parody could not have existed without Tolkien. =)
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Summary: This is the funniest book I have ever read
Review: Anyone who takes J. R. R. Tolkien that seriously has got to have no sense of humor. Bored of the Rings is Funny. Harvard Lampoon is Funny. People should not hate this book for it's brilliant humor just because it pokes fun at Tolkien. I like Tolkien too. I'm glad to see he's getting noticed by such pranksters as Harvard Lampoon. Bored of the Rings is a brilliant spoof. It almost has a magicaly quality about it that no other parody has. I will remember Bored of the Rings.
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Summary: Horrible
Review: Perhaps the worst book ever written. First of all, let me say that I hold Lord of the Rings nearly sacred and believe that it should not be satired in any fashion. That being said, maybe I would have received this literary trash better if it was at all funny. I find it hard to believe that it would be funny even in the seventies. For those of you who liked Lord of the Rings and like this book, be ashamed of yourself. For those of you who don't like it in the first place, you deserve to read this filth.
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Summary: Lese-majeste, but laughable
Review: The first time I read this book, as a young Tolkien fan, I was horrified and unable to finish it. How could anyone scrawl such graffiti over the runes of Middle-Earth? I picked it up again ten years later as a more mature and sophisticated reader---and laughed until I choked like an overfed boggie. (If there's any such thing.) Yes, Tolkien's high, bright, puissant fantasy world is worth cherishing, but if anyone had to lampoon it, the Harvard boys were the ones to do it. The humor is a little dated, but the original LOTR was at its height of popularity in the States during the '60s and '70s, and the acid-edged parodies of Tom Bombadil and Gandalf benefit from it. The raunchily revised Bilbo and Eowyn are timeless. Is it worth your money? Yes, if you ever spent more than five minutes wondering why there manages to be no libido or sex whatsoever in LOTR's few romances.
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