Bored of the Rings
by Henry Beard, Douglas C. Kenney, Harvard Lampoon
Bored of the Rings is Henry Beard and Douglas Kenney's parody of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, first published in 1969 as a Signet paperback by New American Library, New York, for The Harvard Lampoon. Beard and Kenney went on to found National Lampoon, and the book has stayed in print.
- Editions tracked
- 2
- First edition
- Tandem Library, 1969
- First published
- Signet (New American Library), New York, 1969
The first edition of Bored of the Rings by Henry Beard was published by Tandem Library in 1969. We track 2 editions.
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- Editions recorded
- 26 on Open Library, 12 in English
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Who published the first edition of Bored of the Rings?
The first edition of Bored of the Rings by Henry Beard, Douglas C. Kenney, Harvard Lampoon was published by Tandem Library in 1969.
How many editions of Bored of the Rings are there?
We track 2 editions of Bored of the Rings, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
Where these facts come from
- Bored of the Rings, Wikipedia, 2026 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Bored of the Rings (New American Library, 1969), Open Library (openlibrary.org)
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