In part BOTR accomplishes this by slavishly mimicking the form of the book, both in content and in physical layout - the original ◊ paperback edition copied the design of the first authorized Tolkien paperbacks published in the United States, right down to the back-cover note warning of the unauthorized editions which had been previously published.
Produced during the first wave of Tolkien's popularity, when LOTR fandom was a hallmark of the counterculture, Bored draws a deliberate parallel to the contrast between LOTR's epic, almost academic, style and the bohemians and hippies who typified its fans at the time. (The members of which, not coincidentally, would go on several years later to found The National Lampoon magazine.) Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings written by Henry Beard and Douglas Kenney and published in 1969 by the staff of the Harvard University humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon. An, and possibly the, outrageous parody of J.
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