Bruce N H
Active Member
Hey,
In the June 25 Exploring the Lord of the Rings class Corey spoke briefly about Bored of the Rings and the relative lack of Tolkien parody. I mentioned this in the thread, but back in the 90's the rec.arts.books.tolkien usenet newsgroup (anyone else here a veteran of that board?) crowd-sourced a parody version where one person would do a chapter, and then the next would pick up with the next chapter, etc. Here's the link:
http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/book/
I did a couple of the chapters (A Conspiracy Undressed and Deem's Help). One thing to note that may explain some of the jokes - this was being written as the Peter Jackson movies were in the early stages of production, so there were lots of rumors - most notably that PJ was going to turn Arwen into a warrior princess leading an elven army to Helm's Deep - that got picked up in the parody text.
In the June 25 Exploring the Lord of the Rings class Corey spoke briefly about Bored of the Rings and the relative lack of Tolkien parody. I mentioned this in the thread, but back in the 90's the rec.arts.books.tolkien usenet newsgroup (anyone else here a veteran of that board?) crowd-sourced a parody version where one person would do a chapter, and then the next would pick up with the next chapter, etc. Here's the link:
http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/book/
I did a couple of the chapters (A Conspiracy Undressed and Deem's Help). One thing to note that may explain some of the jokes - this was being written as the Peter Jackson movies were in the early stages of production, so there were lots of rumors - most notably that PJ was going to turn Arwen into a warrior princess leading an elven army to Helm's Deep - that got picked up in the parody text.