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* [[Arcadia]]: Subverted by The Stye, home of the Boggies. Anything Saruman and Wormtongue could do to this place would only be an improvement. |
* [[Arcadia]]: Subverted by The Stye, home of the Boggies. Anything Saruman and Wormtongue could do to this place would only be an improvement. |
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* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The One Ring |
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The One Ring |
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* [[Beheaded Himself Shaving]]: The death of the last king of Twodor -- in which he allegedly threw himself backwards onto several dozen knives and forks -- and the series of "suicides" in "imitation" of his method amongst the other nobles of Minas Troney. |
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** Also, the death of Benelux, the steward, who leapt into a burning pyre after "ingeniously tying himself up". |
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* [[Beneath the Earth]]: The dwarven realm of Doria |
* [[Beneath the Earth]]: The dwarven realm of Doria |
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* [[Big Bad]]: Sorhed |
* [[Big Bad]]: Sorhed |
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Tim Benzedrine |
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Tim Benzedrine |
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* [[Contemptible Cover]]: The original paperback edition (seen above) parodied the infamous "Hippie Edition" of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' |
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: The original paperback edition (seen above) parodied the infamous "Hippie Edition" of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' |
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* [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much]]: The first Great Steward of Minas Troney, Paraffin the Climber, became ruler of Twodor after King Chloroplast "apparently fell backward by accident onto a dozen salad forks" and many of his relatives |
* [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much]]: The first Great Steward of Minas Troney, Paraffin the Climber, became ruler of Twodor after King Chloroplast "apparently fell backward by accident onto a dozen salad forks" -- and many of his relatives "committed suicide" in "imitation" of his method, or were felled by strangely similar tragic accidents. |
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** The latest Steward of this line, Benelux the Booby, ties himself up and burns himself on a pyre after appointing Goodgulf (who had uncannily foreseen Benelux's suicidal tendencies) to act as his successor. |
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* [[Cosmopolitan Council]]: Pretty much averted, if not subverted, by Orlon's council at Riv'n'dell. |
* [[Cosmopolitan Council]]: Pretty much averted, if not subverted, by Orlon's council at Riv'n'dell. |
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* [[Creepy Long Fingers]]: Boggies. |
* [[Creepy Long Fingers]]: Boggies. |
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* [[Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age]]: Subverted: |
* [[Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age]]: Subverted: |
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{{quote|In his hand he carried an ancient and trustworthy weapon, called by the elves a Browning semi-automatic.}} |
{{quote|In his hand he carried an ancient and trustworthy weapon, called by the elves a Browning semi-automatic.}} |
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* [[Elves Versus Dwarves]]: And how. |
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* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Threatened result of Sorhed regaining the One Ring. |
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Threatened result of Sorhed regaining the One Ring. |
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* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: The Eisentower, Chikken Noodul... |
* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: The Eisentower, Chikken Noodul... |
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* [[I Have Many Names]]: Stomper -- AKA "Arrowroot son of Arrowshirt, True Son of Arrowhead of Araplane" -- actually uses this phrase word-for-word; other characters also have many names, few of them complimentary. |
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Stomper -- AKA "Arrowroot son of Arrowshirt, True Son of Arrowhead of Araplane" -- actually uses this phrase word-for-word; other characters also have many names, few of them complimentary. |
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* [[Intellectual Animal]]: The Black Beaver, others |
* [[Intellectual Animal]]: The Black Beaver, others |
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* [[Ivy League]]: A great deal of Ivy League stereotypes get trotted out in the introduction for the sole point of self-mockery. |
* [[Ivy League]]: A great deal of Ivy League stereotypes get trotted out in the introduction for the sole point of self-mockery. |
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* [[Jane's Information Group]]: One passage references ''Jane's Dragons and Basilisks of the World''. |
* [[Jane's Information Group]]: One passage references ''Jane's Dragons and Basilisks of the World''. |
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* [[Narrative Poem]]: Numerous, often very witty, parodies of the original songs and poems. |
* [[Narrative Poem]]: Numerous, often very witty, parodies of the original songs and poems. |
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* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: The hickey plant that Tim Benzedrine chases off before it got too bad. |
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: The hickey plant that Tim Benzedrine chases off before it got too bad. |
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* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Not only are the characters aware they're in a book, they wish the reader would just hurry up and finish so they can get on with something -- ''anything'' -- else. {{spoiler|Even dying.}} |
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Not only are the characters aware they're in a book, they wish the reader would just hurry up and finish so they can get on with something -- ''anything'' -- else. {{spoiler|Even dying.}} |
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* [[No More for Me]] |
* [[No More for Me]] |
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* [[Souvenir Land]]: Lornadoon |
* [[Souvenir Land]]: Lornadoon |
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* [[Spoiled by the Format]]: Lampshaded repeatedly. |
* [[Spoiled by the Format]]: Lampshaded repeatedly. |
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* [[Supporting Leader]]: Parodied by Arrowroot. |
* [[Supporting Leader]]: Parodied by Arrowroot. |
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* [[Taxonomic Term Confusion]]: There is an appearance by "six different phyla of giant insects". Insects, whatever their size, are a single ''class'' of phylum Arthropoda -- and you would think Harvard students would know that. |
* [[Taxonomic Term Confusion]]: There is an appearance by "six different phyla of giant insects". Insects, whatever their size, are a single ''class'' of phylum Arthropoda -- and you would think Harvard students would know that. |
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* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Spoofed in the prologue where, after the answer to "What have I got in my pocket?" is demonstrated to be a .38 pistol, the thought behind "pity stayed his hand" is explained as "It's a pity I've run out of bullets." |
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Spoofed in the prologue where, after the answer to "What have I got in my pocket?" is demonstrated to be a .38 pistol, the thought behind "pity stayed his hand" is explained as "It's a pity I've run out of bullets." |
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* [[The Time of Myths]]: All but explicitly called that in the prologue, but judging from the pop culture references, not so much. |
* [[The Time of Myths]]: All but explicitly called that in the prologue, but judging from the pop culture references, not so much. |
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* [[True Companions]]: Subverted; nobody actually wanted to join, but were volunteered by other people who hated them. |
* [[True Companions]]: Subverted; nobody actually wanted to join, but were volunteered by other people who hated them. |
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* [[Truth Serums]]: Goodgulf's method for learning how Dildo got the Ring. |
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* [[Urban Segregation]]: The rings of Minas Troney. |
* [[Urban Segregation]]: The rings of Minas Troney. |
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* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: Much of its humor is irrevocably tied to the pop culture and politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. |
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: Much of its humor is irrevocably tied to the pop culture and politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. |