Approximately the first 100 pages are based on "The Fellowship of the Ring" with the other two volumes represented in the remaining 60 pages. Perhaps most unfortunate of all is the manner in which the authors condense what took Tolkien nearly 1000 pages to write into the span of 160 pages. Had they occurred in a modern book, I would have believed the authors were trying to earn some laughs through shock value. This scene, and several others, are neither funny nor do they advance the plot. At one point, Frito (the stand-in for Frodo in this tale) dons blackface and performs a minstrel show to escape the story's version of the Ringwraiths. What's worse is some of the offensive and unfunny jokes. Tolkien deliberately wrote to evoke an older time, "Bored of the Rings" suffers from its dated humor and references. The Harvard Lampoon's parody of "Lord of the Rings," though entertaining, is quite dated.
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