by Adam Roberts (Author)
Bingo Sac Grabbins is asked by the coughing wizard Gandef and some (oddly Welsh) dwarves to help them relieve the great dragon Smug of his gold. SF author and Tolkien scholar Adam Roberts has written a parody that is both hilarious and intelligent. With knowing digs at the fantasy genre in general and the mystique that has built around middle earth in particular this will make Tolkien's 21st century readers laugh in a way that BORED OF THE RINGS made his fans of 1969 laugh.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 350
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 16 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 0575075546
ISBN 13: 9780575075542
Book Overview: BORED OF THE RINGS has sold 186,000 in hardback BORED 6 months on the Sunday Times Bestseller lists Published in the same price-busting format as BORED Tolkien mania continues unabated 90 per cent of those who have read LORD OF THE RINGS have read THE HOBBIT Published in the run-up to the third Lord of the Rings movie Fully illustrated by cover artist Douglas Carrel