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’.
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.
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.