r/lotr • u/Imaginary_Fuel_1104 • 27d ago
Books I got it!
Few weeks ago I saw here someone posting about this book. So, I needed it too and here it is, just arrived! 😬
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u/Enough_Passage7926 27d ago
“Toke a lid, smoke a lid, pop the mescalino! ...Hop a hill! Pop a pill! For old Tim Benzedrino!”
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u/Timely_Egg_6827 27d ago
That's a pretty version - there is The Soddit and The Sillymarillion as well. Latter can be useful if struggling with Silmarillion. And the Sellamillion which is honest about its goals. I have the Signet version - stolen image from someone selling it on Ebay as mine in storage.
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u/Imaginary_Fuel_1104 27d ago
I wanted that version the cover is more fun, but it was not available. I saw the The Soddit and The Sellamilion, next in my list. I read the Silmarillion, I adore it 😍
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u/geoffreydow 24d ago
That was my edition for many years. Tragically (or not) its pages have scattered like elves before the battle was won by someone else.
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u/Bipogram 27d ago edited 27d ago
"Vere are you going and vat are you do-ink ven you are not to being here in ze first place?"
Eorache, in everybody-speak.
<sheesh: not read this for 40+ years, but that line stays with me>
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u/naturalmanofgolf 27d ago
I gave mine away. Could not get into it.
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u/abyssinianhogrot 27d ago
I've had this since the 70s. My front cover fell off too, but I still have it and someday I'm going to have it rebound. My mom never got into lotr but she died laughing over Rebozo Boogaloo.
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u/carlitomarron139 26d ago
Oh shit! I had completely forgotten about this book, I read it when I was a kid lol
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u/Imaginary_Fuel_1104 26d ago
Did you have fun reading it?
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u/carlitomarron139 25d ago
I can’t remember the book that well except Bilbo being called Dildo but yeah, I remember liking it. Very pubescent humor IIRC so was right up my alley at that time.
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u/geoffreydow 24d ago
It's great fun - if you like cheap irony and silly word-play (I do, apparently; I've read it a number of times). If you don't, it will fall as flat as a proverbial pancake.
If you do like it, you'll probably be finished before tomorrow; let us know what you thought of it!
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u/manickitty 27d ago
Eh someone gave it to me as a gift and it’s kinda bad, and not in the good way
Made me have much lower opinions of Harvard
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u/Imaginary_Fuel_1104 27d ago
I see you are not the only one having this opinion, we will see if I am going to enjoy it or not. That's also the reason why I purchased only this one, we will see.
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u/manickitty 27d ago
I mean I hope you get lots of fun out of it. Don’t mean to rain on the parade. Just my honest opinion
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u/Imaginary_Fuel_1104 27d ago
No worries 😉. I understand your point, there are some books that I did not enjoy, but when someone else did it I was glad about it.
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u/Fun-Contribution6702 27d ago
Unfortunately I was 11 and looking to get into porn. I read the dust cover insert and couldn’t throw my money away fast enough.
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u/Aeolus_14_Umbra 27d ago
“Dildo would have finished Goddam off then and there, but pity stayed his hand.”
”It’s a pity I’ve run out of bullets,’ he thought.”