# Bored of the Rings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** middle-earth\ **Created:** [February 13, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-of-the-rings/847888 "2020-02-13T18:40:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-of-the-rings/847888/61 "2020-02-17T23:25:19Z")
Read it the appropriate age (high school) - did enjoy it. Always liked the description of a valuable gift Dildo was given - ‘A plover’s egg the size of an emerald’. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-of-the-rings/847888/62 "2020-02-17T23:38:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Twas pity stayed his hand. “It’s a pity I’ve run out of bullets” That is a great line. I tried to read it in college. I read enough that I recognize most of the references given here, but I don’t think I finished it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-of-the-rings/847888/63 "2020-02-18T14:29:40Z")
That class of the Harvard Lampoon (Henry Beard, Doug Kenney) gave us the National Lampoon…which in turn, through it’s Radio Dinner project, gave us the first generation of Saturday Night Live (Michael O’Donoghue, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murrray…). So there’s a direct connection between Bored of the Rings and 50% of everything funny in the last 40 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-of-the-rings/847888.md?page=3)