"Silence," commanded Goodgulf in a loud voice. "Speak not of the Great Ring here or anywhere. If Sorhed's spies discovered that you, Frito Bugger, hailing from the Sty, had the One Ring, all would be lost. And his spies are everywhere. The Nine Black Riders are abroad again, and there are those who claim to have seen the Seven Santinis, the Six Danger Signs, and the entire Trapp family, including the dog. Even the walls have ears," he said, pointing to two huge lobes which were protruding from behind the mantelpiece.



Bored of the Rings is the hilarious parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy, The Lord of the Rings. This side-splitting book follows the travels of Frito Bugger through Lower Middle-Earth on his quest to destroy the One Ring.
The story begins the same way The Lord of the Rings does, with Frito's uncle throwing a party for all the boggies in the Sty to attend. What are boggies, you ask. They are caricatures of Tolkien''s hobbits: "Boggies are an unattractive but annoying people whose numbers have decreased rather precipitously since the bottom fell out of the fairy-tale market."



'Bored of the Rings' has attracted many fans, though not so many as the original, with even a fansite which contains large snipplets from the book.