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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.
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The One Ring
* [[Beneath the Earth]]: The dwarven realm of Doria
* [[Big Bad]]: Sorhed
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Tim Benzedrine
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: The original paperback edition (seen above) parodied the infamous "Hippie Edition" of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
* [[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 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.
* [[Cosmopolitan Council]]: Pretty much averted, if not subverted, by Orlon's council at Riv'n'dell.
* [[Creepy Long Fingers]]: Boggies.
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* [[Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age]]: Subverted:
{{quote|In his hand he carried an ancient and trustworthy weapon, called by the elves a Browning semi-automatic.}}
* [[Elves
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Threatened result of Sorhed regaining the One Ring.
* [[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.
* [[Intellectual Animal]]: The Black Beaver, others
* [[ISO Standard Fantasy Setting]]: Subverted, in the first parody thereof, by all manner of "foreign" elements and intrusions.▼
* [[Ivy League]]: A great deal of Ivy League stereotypes get trotted out in the introduction for the sole point of self-mockery.
* [[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.
* [[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 More for Me]]
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* [[Souvenir Land]]: Lornadoon
* [[Spoiled by the Format]]: Lampshaded repeatedly.
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* [[Supporting Leader]]: Parodied by Arrowroot.
* [[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."
* [[The Time of Myths]]: All but explicitly called that in the prologue, but judging from the pop culture references, not so much.
▲* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: On the flyleaf of the paperback is a passage allegedly from later in the book in which a beautiful, lusty elf maiden is about to seduce Frito. Naturally, it appears nowhere else.
* [[True Companions]]: Subverted; nobody actually wanted to join, but were volunteered by other people who hated them.
* [[Truth
* [[Urban Segregation]]: The rings of Minas Troney.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: Much of its humor is irrevocably tied to the pop culture and politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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