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''Bored of the Rings'' is a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''. This short novel was written by Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney, who later founded ''National Lampoon''. It was published in 1969 by Signet for the ''Harvard Lampoon''. In 2013, an audio version was produced by Orion Audiobooks, narrated by Rupert Degas. ==Overview== The parody generally follows the outline of ''The Lord of the Rings'', including the preface, the prologue, poetry, and songs, while making light of what Tolkien made serious (e.g., "He would have finished him off then and there, but pity stayed his hand. ''It's a pity I've run out of bullets,'' he thought, as he went back up the tunnel..."). Names and words in the various languages are parodied with brand names that mimic their sounds (for example, ''Moxie'' and ''Pepsi'' replace ''Merry'' and ''Pippin''). There are many topical references, including once-popular brand names. It has the distinction for a parody of having been continuously in print since it was first published. Aside from the text itself, the book includes five elements that parody common features of mass-market books: * A laudatory back cover review, written at Harvard, possibly by the authors themselves. * Inside cover reviews which are entirely contrived, concluding with a quote by someone affiliated with the publication ''Our Loosely Enforced Libel Laws''. * A list of other books in the "series", none of which exist. * A double page map which has almost nothing to do with the events in the text. * The first text a browsing reader is liable to see purports to be a salacious sample from the book, but the episode never happens in the main text, nor does anything else of that tone: the book has no explicit sexual content. The Signet first edition cover, a parody of the 1965 Ballantine paperback cover by Barbara Remington,〔(Flavinscorner.com ) Overview of fantasy from the period, including the Ballantine edition of ''Rings''.〕 was drawn by Muppets designer Michael K. Frith. Current publications have different artwork by Douglas Carrel, since (the paperback cover art ) for ''Lord of the Rings'' prevalent in the 60s, then famous, is now obscure.〔(LOTR Scrapbook ) Critical review of Ballantine cover art for the three books.〕 William S. Donnell drew the "parody map"〔(Bored of the Rings Parody Map, on Internet Archive )〕 of Lower Middle Earth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bored of the Rings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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