YMMV / Bored of the Rings

• Cliché Storm: Presciently presented, as the conversion of Tolkien's original creativity into the clichés of heroic fantasy had barely begun at that point.
• Crosses the Line Twice: They start off by changing "Bilbo Baggins" into Dildo Bugger. And they started as they meant to go on.
• Designated Hero: Pretty much everyone. Spam is a sarcastic sleaze with a conviction for ''lewd acts with an underage dragon of the opposite sex'', Moxie and Pepsi are hyperactive morons, Goodgulf and Arrowroot are cowardly buffoons and eventual murderers, and Legolam and Gimlet are too busy sniping at each other to be of much use at all during the quest. Frito is the only remotely heroic member of the cast.
• Genius Bonus: The wizard Serutan's evil influence is first experienced as "the runs"- logically enough, since "Serutan" was a well known brand of laxative.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Nozdrul are riding pigs and the Riders of Roi-tan ride sheep, both of which seemed to be pretty ridiculous at that time. In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the Dwarf Dáin Ironfoot rides a large boar, and the extended version of the film features a Dwarven cavalry on rams.
• Memetic Mutation: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons.
• Spiritual Successor: Adam Roberts wrote two Middle-Earth parodies called The Soddit and The Sellamillion which were marketed as spiritual prequels to this book.
• Unintentional Period Piece: When it was originally written in 1969, this book was just a straightforward parody with no particular theme, full of modern pop culture references (much like the parody-movies of today). To modern readers, Bored of the Rings could easily be described as "a '60s retelling of Lord of the Rings." For the best experience, a working knowledge of 1950s and 1960s politics, pop culture, and advertising is necessary.