The mad (and genius) brains behind the Harvard Lampoon, Henry Beard and Douglas Kenney, were hyper-inventive irreverent spirits and, in 1969, wrote a spoof of Lord of the Rings. It delivers!
Love your post, Dani. I know what film I will watch next. I’ve been a fan of National Lapoon for ages but did not know about this Bored of the Rings thing, let alone about its beginnings . I wonder how hard core Lord of the Rings took this? Long live to comedy!
Well, according to Wikipedia, LOTR aficionados are actually quite complimentary of Bored of the Rings (surprised me, too). According to a Tolkien scholar who's perused Tolkien's many drafts, says that the author himself "came very close to inadvertently writing the parody version of his own novel" and thus says about Beard and Kenney: "Those parodists wrought better than they knew".
Love your post, Dani. I know what film I will watch next. I’ve been a fan of National Lapoon for ages but did not know about this Bored of the Rings thing, let alone about its beginnings . I wonder how hard core Lord of the Rings took this? Long live to comedy!
Well, according to Wikipedia, LOTR aficionados are actually quite complimentary of Bored of the Rings (surprised me, too). According to a Tolkien scholar who's perused Tolkien's many drafts, says that the author himself "came very close to inadvertently writing the parody version of his own novel" and thus says about Beard and Kenney: "Those parodists wrought better than they knew".