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An, and possibly ''the'', outrageous parody of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' written and published in 1969 by the staff of the Harvard University humor magazine, ''The Harvard Lampoon''. (The members of which, not coincidentally, would go on several years later to found ''The National Lampoon'' magazine.)
Produced during the first wave of Tolkien's popularity, when ''LOTR'' fandom was a [[New Age Retro Hippie|hallmark of the counterculture]], '''''Bored of the Rings''''' draws a deliberate parallel to the contrast between ''LOTR'''s epic, almost academic, style and the bohemians and hippies who typified its fans at the time. In part ''BOTR'' accomplishes this by slavishly mimicking the ''form'' of the book, both in content and in physical layout -- the [[media:BotR_650.jpg|original]] paperback edition [http://lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net/gallery/bookcovers/pages/04.htm copied the design] of the first authorized Tolkien paperbacks published in the United States, right down to the back-cover note warning of the unauthorized editions which had been previously published. However, draped over this superficially Tolkienian framework is an over-the-top and frequently hallucinogenic tale that twists every element of ''The Lord of the Rings'' into something ridiculous yet still recognizable.
The book manages to find and skewer all the high points of Tolkien's ''magnum opus'' with considerable alacrity. In the first few chapters we meet a bevy of under-impressive characters, including
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