Bored of the Rings!! - Page 2

Coney · 12-10-2002, 06:21 PM

Not from the original book but there is someones version of a parody of Ap. A and The Souring of the Shire -

http://junior.apk.net/~drushel/b_app_a.html

It's pretty funny and definitly cut from the same vien as Bored of the Rings

Agburanar · 12-30-2002, 04:43 PM

As I said on another thread (and for some reason got totally balled out and the thread closed mimble mimble, only trying to make contact, mumble brurarum...) I found a few moments funny, but altogether I found the humour immature and the book rather pointless and dull. It wasn't so much as a parody as a story slightly based on LotR. I've read funnier things on the back of a penguin bar I'm afraid.

Strangely enough though it did seem to have influenced the film quite a lot though.....

BeardofPants · 12-30-2002, 04:58 PM

I see I haven't added my humble opinion.

Quote:

Originally posted by Agburanar
I found a few moments funny, but altogether I found the humour immature and the book rather pointless and dull. It wasn't so much as a parody as a story slightly based on LotR. I've read funnier things on the back of a penguin bar I'm afraid.

Yeah, what he said.

Skinny.Demon · 12-30-2002, 05:38 PM

You could look at the book in terms of humour, and yes, its isn't that funny, but as a parody it isn't that bad...

Remember, the writers have the utmost respect for Tolkien, so I wouldn't take it to seriously...

The only question that should be asked is.... Is it funny? Thats the whole object of the book, to make you laugh..

markedel · 12-30-2002, 07:11 PM

Hmm I wonder if the large and ponderous Lord of the Whatever...will adapt that for its own. Of course that parody makes far less sense.

middleEarthStar · 12-31-2002, 02:33 PM

God.

Boring with books like that...hmm.......Tolkien is a legend....They dnt have to make fun of him!!!!

Skinny.Demon · 01-01-2003, 09:45 AM

Quote:

Boring with books like that...hmm.......Tolkien is a legend....They dnt have to make fun of him!!!!

But that just the point. They weren't making fun of him... If you read it, it does say they respected and greatly admired Tolkiens work...

Just a bit of fun thats all... (not at Tolkiens expense though)

Blackboar · 01-01-2003, 10:46 AM

Nilore!! You nicked Zavrons avatar!!!

Hmm..maybe I should give it a read!

Ërendil · 01-04-2003, 06:07 PM

I've seen it in Waterstones bookstore. It is very funny, the bits that I read. I have only flipped through it though.

Agburanar · 01-06-2003, 06:17 AM

It doesn't even really hang together as a book in it's own right. In all, not close enough to the original to be a parody and not funny enough to be a comedy.

Dunadan · 01-06-2003, 08:37 AM

I got it from Santa this xmas and have started reading it. It is DEFINITELY a parody, and funny too. However, it does end up taking its own story too seriously and the comedy names have dated somewhat.

cheers

d.

Blackboar · 01-06-2003, 01:10 PM

Just went to the book shop. I didn't have enough money so I stopped there, sat on the floor and read half of it. After about half an hour they through me out

Gamigar · 03-17-2003, 05:16 PM

I was sorta mad at first when i saw it, but now i might read it.
THANKS!

Heather Wooltoes · 03-18-2003, 11:48 PM

I had this book at one time. It was reaaaallly funny the first time I read it (but then, as I recall I'd had a few beers) but not so great on rereading. I threw it out a few years ago because I didn't want my somewhat of a precosious reader daughter finding it in my bookcase and warping her fragile young mind. Same reason I chucked all my Anne Rice "Sleeping Beauty" books (after careful shredding so any dumpster diving children in the neighborhood didn't end up in therapy

FrodoFriend · 03-19-2003, 08:14 AM

I really liked the beginning, but got kind of bored with it later on ... the ending sort of sucked, they could have done that better.

My favorite part is

Unicef's long and bitter search for a clean restroom! I actually wrote it out, sort of ... LOL, true Elvish poetry!

***azalea*** · 03-19-2003, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Heather Wooltoes
I had this book at one time. It was reaaaallly funny the first time I read it (but then, as I recall I'd had a few beers) but not so great on rereading. I threw it out a few years ago because I didn't want my somewhat of a precosious reader daughter finding it in my bookcase and warping her fragile young mind. Same reason I chucked all my Anne Rice "Sleeping Beauty" books (after careful shredding so any dumpster diving children in the neighborhood didn't end up in therapy

Lol, I recently gave away my Vampire Chronicles for the same reason!

Jesus Freak · 03-28-2003, 05:57 PM

what is the authors name ?

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-28-2003, 10:48 PM

Didn't they only fight through the First Age?

Agburanar · 03-31-2003, 10:25 AM

There's a new Harry Potter parody by the same company now, it's just as bad.

Disppointing because I've been working on a much better one for a while now.

I say working, I did a few chapters, but I had the rest planned.

I say planned, I have ideas.

I say ideas, just notions really.

I say notions and that's what I mean dammit!

Jesus Freak · 03-31-2003, 10:11 PM

okay then what is the companys name?

12-10-2002, 06:21 PM	#21
Coney The Buddy Rabbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Trapped in the headlights.. Posts: 3,372	Bored (ish) Not from the original book but there is someones version of a parody of Ap. A and The Souring of the Shire - http://junior.apk.net/~drushel/b_app_a.html It's pretty funny and definitly cut from the same vien as Bored of the Rings __________________ Blessed are the cracked, they let the light in Beatallica

12-30-2002, 04:43 PM	#22
Agburanar Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dorset Posts: 608	As I said on another thread (and for some reason got totally balled out and the thread closed mimble mimble, only trying to make contact, mumble brurarum...) I found a few moments funny, but altogether I found the humour immature and the book rather pointless and dull. It wasn't so much as a parody as a story slightly based on LotR. I've read funnier things on the back of a penguin bar I'm afraid. Strangely enough though it did seem to have influenced the film quite a lot though..... __________________ I would wish, were it to any avail, that the LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS had never been wrought. ROLLING STOCK, WE'RE ROLLING STOCK!!

12-30-2002, 05:38 PM	#24
Skinny.Demon Sapling Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: UK Posts: 10	You could look at the book in terms of humour, and yes, its isn't that funny, but as a parody it isn't that bad... Remember, the writers have the utmost respect for Tolkien, so I wouldn't take it to seriously... The only question that should be asked is.... Is it funny? Thats the whole object of the book, to make you laugh.. __________________ The Ring Bearer Forums

12-30-2002, 07:11 PM	#25
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	Hmm I wonder if the large and ponderous Lord of the Whatever...will adapt that for its own. Of course that parody makes far less sense. __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

12-31-2002, 02:33 PM	#26
middleEarthStar Sapling Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: sweden Posts: 13	JERKS God. Boring with books like that...hmm.......Tolkien is a legend....They dnt have to make fun of him!!!! __________________ Let it be yore light at dark places when all other light goes out

01-01-2003, 10:46 AM	#28
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	Nilore!! You nicked Zavrons avatar!!! Hmm..maybe I should give it a read!

01-04-2003, 06:07 PM	#29
Ërendil Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 389	I've seen it in Waterstones bookstore. It is very funny, the bits that I read. I have only flipped through it though. __________________ "You're one of the Abaharaki, oh I had forgotten. Look at me, I am completly drenched! I do hate the rain, it makes me so depressed..." "Hehehehe, moeru moeru!" "That's it, set it all on fire; we're gonna smoke out Escaflowne!" "Oh, I hit the wrong target... never mind that creature was useless to us anyway. Our orders were to get the girl? So he isn't our concern, we don't need him!" ^_^ Isn't Dilandau just fantastic? You just have to love the insane, murderous pyro :-D

01-06-2003, 06:17 AM	#30
Agburanar Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dorset Posts: 608	It doesn't even really hang together as a book in it's own right. In all, not close enough to the original to be a parody and not funny enough to be a comedy. __________________ I would wish, were it to any avail, that the LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS had never been wrought. ROLLING STOCK, WE'RE ROLLING STOCK!!

01-06-2003, 08:37 AM	#31
Dunadan The Quite Querulous Quendi Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Oxon, UK Posts: 638	I got it from Santa this xmas and have started reading it. It is DEFINITELY a parody, and funny too. However, it does end up taking its own story too seriously and the comedy names have dated somewhat. cheers d.

01-06-2003, 01:10 PM	#32
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	Just went to the book shop. I didn't have enough money so I stopped there, sat on the floor and read half of it. After about half an hour they through me out

03-17-2003, 05:16 PM	#33
Gamigar Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: somewhere between here and there Posts: 116	I was sorta mad at first when i saw it, but now i might read it. THANKS!

03-18-2003, 11:48 PM	#34
Heather Wooltoes Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 182	I had this book at one time. It was reaaaallly funny the first time I read it (but then, as I recall I'd had a few beers) but not so great on rereading. I threw it out a few years ago because I didn't want my somewhat of a precosious reader daughter finding it in my bookcase and warping her fragile young mind. Same reason I chucked all my Anne Rice "Sleeping Beauty" books (after careful shredding so any dumpster diving children in the neighborhood didn't end up in therapy __________________ Sometimes the Dragon Wins. Don't p*** me off.....I'm running out of places to hide the bodies!

03-28-2003, 05:57 PM	#37
Jesus Freak Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 76	what is the authors name ? Last edited by Jesus Freak : 03-29-2003 at 06:13 PM.

03-28-2003, 10:48 PM	#38
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Didn't they only fight through the First Age? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-31-2003, 10:25 AM	#39
Agburanar Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Dorset Posts: 608	There's a new Harry Potter parody by the same company now, it's just as bad. Disppointing because I've been working on a much better one for a while now. I say working, I did a few chapters, but I had the rest planned. I say planned, I have ideas. I say ideas, just notions really. I say notions and that's what I mean dammit! __________________ I would wish, were it to any avail, that the LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS had never been wrought. ROLLING STOCK, WE'RE ROLLING STOCK!!

03-31-2003, 10:11 PM	#40
Jesus Freak Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 76	okay then what is the companys name?

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