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| The ''']''' ] writings of ] have had a profound and wide-ranging '''impact on ]'''. This is especially true for '']'', ever since its publication in the 1950s, but especially throughout the 1960s and 1970s, where young people embraced it as a ] saga, and its influence has been vastly extended in the present day, thanks to the live-action film trilogy by ]. Many of the following references are directly inspired by the latter films rather than the book. | |||
| ==References== | |||
| ===Movies, television, and radio=== | |||
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| *In an episode of the sitcom '']'', ] and ] speak about a university friend, called "] (-the Party Wizard)." When ] asks why they call him Gandalf, they reply, "Didn't you read ''The Lord of the Rings'' in high school?" to which Joey responds, "No, I had ''sex'' in high school." | |||
| *In addition to spoofing elements of ''The Lord of the Rings'', '']'' has a nurse with a conjoined twin fetus on her head called Nurse ]. | |||
| * The ''South Park'' episode "]" is a parody of the movie version of ''The Lord of the Rings''. | |||
| * In the movie ''Spy Kids: Island of Lost Dreams'', Junie picks up a necklace. When he needs to return to its pedestal, he says 'My Precious' in a voice like Gollum's. | |||
| * The TV show '']'' (1993-1998) includes occasional homages to ''The Lord of the Rings'', as well as epic themes drawn from similar ] roots. ''See ] for a more detailed exploration''. | |||
| * In ] episode '']'', ] finds his way to the Dwarves stronghold Boringya. There Dwarves leader "Beardbottom" tells him about the on-going Dwarves' war with Elves over the monopoly on the cookie industry, and asks him for an aid in the big final assault on an Elves Cookie Factory. A flashback about the origins of the war is a nod to the '']'', where the races are shown dividing up a monopol on the fast-food industry. | |||
| * In another episode of ], called ], '']'' and '']'' are parodied: Mandy acquires a ring from a Gollum-like creature by solving a riddle ("What's black and blue and red all over?" "That would be you if I don't get that ring pronto!"), with that ring she gains power over an evil army. | |||
| * In an episode of ] one of ]'s henchmen had a ] toy sword. | |||
| * The TV show '']'' often has references to ''The Lord of the Rings'' in various episodes. | |||
| * In the ] episode ] one of the warriors says Gandalf's line "You shall not pass!" | |||
| * An episode of ] had a parody of ] that had ''The Lord of the Rings'' done with celebrities including ]. | |||
| * In an episode of '']'', the family goes to a dude ranch. While there they are taken on a picnic by Cookie, the ranch owner. After finishing Cookie calls "Cleany" to come clean up. Cleany's movements and mannerisms are modeled precisely after ] and he refers to the garbage as his "precious." Cleany was voiced by ]. | |||
| * In a more recent episode of ''The Simpsons'' Bart on Lisa defend a box fort from a rampaging army of brown shirt delivery men. The whole sequence draws many parallels with the battle to defend Gondor in the return of the King. The writers even go as far as to include a flying fell beast, similar to that riden by the Nazgûl. Throughout this whole sequence, the chorus section of "The Fields of Pelennor" of The Return of the King soundtrack can be heard. | |||
| *In Disney's sequel to '']'', '']'', Yzma causes people in a retirement home to become addicted to a "youth potion" that is actually green water. When Kronk buys out the retirement home, Rudy (the old man that Emperor Kuzco had thrown out the window in the first movie) comes and begs for a spot. When Kronk takes out the "potion," Rudy jumps up and takes it out of his hand and then bends his back, rubbing the potion. Imitating Gollum, he then said, "My precious...Kronk just wants it all for himself!" | |||
| * In an episode of '']'', Stewie is at the park. When he sees another kid at the jungle gym Stewie pushes the kid on the ground and says "Cry, cry like Sauron when he lost his contacts." The scene then shifts to a cutaway showing the Eye of Sauron frantically searching for his lost contact. | |||
| * On another episode of '']'', there is a scene that also parodies the movie ''Poltergeist'' as well as ''The Lord of the Rings''. Chris is thrown from his bedroom window into the clutches of a living tree. The scene eventually parodies the epic confrontation between Gandalf and the Balrog as seen in ''The Lord of the Rings'' when Herbert the Creepy Old Paedophile shows up to save Chris. Herbert recites the film trilogy Gandalf's line, "You shall not pass!". | |||
| * In the episode "Whoever Did This" of '']'', two children play with bows and arrows while quoting lines from '']''. As a result, one of the children (the son of capo Ralphie Cifareto) is fatally wounded by an arrow to the chest. | |||
| * In the episode "Two Birds of a Feather" of '']'', a scene showing Magnum and his friends during the Vietnam War, his team uses the codename "Frodo" while trying to contact "Gandalf" to get air support. | |||
| * In the show '']'', episode 2.02 (Lord of the Three Ring Binder) spoofs ''The Lord of the Rings'', with Jack as Frodo (and Déagol, when Jack was in his College years). | |||
| * The episode "D & DD" of the animated series '']'' spoofs ''Dungeons and Dragons'' in general (even mentioning a warrior called "]"), but inserts references to Middle-earth. Dexter is forced to play as "Hodo the Furry-footed Burrower", a hobbit/halfling whose name is possibly a combination of "Hobbit" and "Frodo". | |||
| * ] of ] has made several references to both ''The Lord of the Rings'', and ''Middle-earth'' on his show. He has referenced the Eye of ], ], ], ], ], ], and ] | |||
| * In the movie '']'', A lead character Randal has an argument with supporting character Elias and a customer over the quality of the ] trilogies and The Lord of the Rings. Randal equates the ''Lord of The Rings'' movies as being three movies about walking. The first movie is demonstrated by Randal taking an exaggerated step while blank-faced; the second by tripping and looking back and down mid-walk; the third consisting of the same walk, culminating in a gesture to remove the ring from the finger and toss it downward. Before the film was made, director ] had done the exact same thing during an appearance on '']''. | |||
| * In the movie '']'' one of the girls calls another girl a ''Hobbit''. | |||
| * Talk show host ] once described himself as a black smoke from Mordor (as if hindering the Democratic party). | |||
| * In the '']'' episode "]", Dr. Bill Lee uses the lighting of the beacons of Gondor to explain his idea of relaying a message to Atlantis. | |||
| * In the '']'' episode "Partying is Such Sweet Soiree", when Mac goes on a sugar-high rampage, he pets sugar-related objects and says, "My precious..." imitating Gollum. | |||
| Also, in another episode, the foster home is being 'besieged' in a scene that parodies the siege of Helm's Deep. | |||
| * In the cartoon Squirrel Boy, a Nazgûl comes to the family's house and summons them to 'the Lord of the sing's' in one episode. | |||
| * In the Fairly Oddparents, nine Nazgûl are shown outside Timmy's door to be his 'new babysitters.' | |||
| * An episode of '']'' did a parody of Lord of the Rings known as "Lords of the Bling" where ] played Gandalf and said, "We have to take the ring to Mordor, by the ]!" Frodo was now Froho. | |||
| * In the '']'' episode "G is for Garbage", when Irma and Blunk go to Blunk's hideout, Blunk says, "My precious..." while loving his trash, and he even sounds like Gollum. | |||
| * In the flim '']'' the character called The Pin extols the quality of Tolkien's writing to Brendan. | |||
| *In the tv series "Bones", FBI Agent Seeley Booth countered Temperance Brennan's suspicions of voodoo: "and then we just toss the ring into the molten river, and blah blah blah" ("The Man in the Morgue"). | |||
| *'']'' was mocked by '']'' alumni ] and ] in an audio commentary for Nelson's ] service. However, Nelson has publicly stated that unlike most of the films featured on the service, he actually likes the film.<ref>RiffTrax.com: </ref> | |||
| *In the ] ] the 68th episode parodies the films with the cast donning similar rolls as they travel around the world they were transported to. | |||
| *In the ] episode "Splat!", Carrie is asked to bring a date to a party for a work colleague, Enid (]). Carrie insists that the date, played by ] is very sweet, to which Enid responds furiously "He's a Hobbit!" | |||
| ===Music=== | |||
| * ]' song "]" includes a passing reference to ''The Lord of the Rings'', and writer ] was known to have been a fan of them. During the song's fade-out, Lennon can be heard singing a series of seemingly nonsensical sounds; these phrases are either a Lennon pre-taped vocal played backwards, or Lennon imitating the sound of a reverse-tape voice. At the start of the fade-out Lennon can clearly be heard chanting the words "Ash Nazg", the first two words of the ] engraved on the ]. | |||
| * ]'s music: "]" (1968) is based on '']''. | |||
| * ] set most of the verse of the One Ring ("Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky...") to music as "Ring Thing" in ]'s second album, ''Balaklava'' (1968). | |||
| * ]'s music: "]" (1969) refers to ] and ] in ], "]" (1971) is named after Tolkien's ], and "]" (1971) is an actual allegory from the "]" from ''The Return of the King''; the line in "]" 'the feeling I get when I look to the west' signifies the longing for the Elven undying lands which are 'to the west' which many characters in Tolkien's work experience; while "Over the Hills and Far Away" (1973) refers to "The Hobbit". | |||
| * Swedish keyboard player ] recorded an entire ] titled ''The Lord of the Rings'' in 1972, which was performed mostly on electronic keyboard instruments. | |||
| *] musician and composer ] undertook an ambitious three-volume jazz interpretation of the trilogy in the late 1970s, using most of the best Australian jazz musicians of the time as session players | |||
| * ] song "Stagnation" (from '']'', 1970) was about Gollum. The most direct references being "''And I will wait for ever, beside the silent mirror. And fish for bitter minnows amongst the weeds and slimy water.''" and "''To take all the dust and the dirt from my throat, To wash out the filth that is deep in my guts.''"{{Fact|date=February 2007}} | |||
| * ] has a song called "Rivendell" (1975) on their '']'' album. | |||
| * ] has a song called "Lords of the Ring" on their '']'' album (1978). | |||
| * ] has a group of songs called "Songs of the Quendi" on her '']'' album (1978, Bronze Records Ltd.). | |||
| * The Austrian musician Gandalf (Heinz Stobl) chose his name with reference to the hobbits' wizard friend. He has composed several pieces of music which deal with themes and characters originating from ''The Lord of the Rings'', some of which can be found on his second album, ''Visions'' (1981). | |||
| * ]’s first symphony ''The Lord of the Rings'' is based on the trilogy. The symphony consists of five separate movements, each illustrating a personage or an important episode from the series. The symphony was written in the period between March 1984 and December 1987, and had its première in Brussels on 15th March 1988. | |||
| <BLOCKQUOTE>The movements are: | |||
| <ol type="I"> | |||
| <li>GANDALF (The Wizard)</li> | |||
| <li>LOTHLORIEN (The Elvenwood)</li> | |||
| <li>GOLLUM (Sméagol)</li> | |||
| <li>JOURNEY IN THE DARK<ol type="a"> | |||
| <li>The Mines of Moria</li> | |||
| <li>The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm</li></ol></li> | |||
| <li>HOBBITS</li></ol></BLOCKQUOTE> | |||
| * The French singer ] is inspired by ] in his song ''Tom Bombadilom'', released on the album ''Tombé du ciel'' in 1988. | |||
| * The German power metal band ] has a song called "Lord of the Rings" on the album '']'' (1991). On their '']'' (1992) there is a song called ''In the Forest - The Hobbit''. They also released an album based on ''The Silmarillon'' called '']'' (1998), including songs like ''The Curse of Fëanor'', and ''Into The Storm'', retelling the struggle ] endured when the ] were destroyed. Some of their other works also contain references to Tolkien's creations. | |||
| * ] recorded the song "Lothlórien" in 1991 and also performed the songs "May It Be" and "Aníron" for the soundtrack of Peter Jackson's film of ''The Fellowship of the Ring''. | |||
| * Some songs by the ] band ], such as "The Fall of Gondolin" (1992<!--- Tape self-release; the album is 1995 --->), have been inspired by ''The Lord of the Rings''. | |||
| * The progressive rock group ] has numerous Tolkien-influenced songs, including "Nimrodel", and a CD entitled ''Journey of the Dúnadan'' (1993) which is a loose interpretation of the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, and a CD entitled ''The Middle-earth Album'' (2001) which contains several songs recorded "live at the Prancing Pony in Bree". | |||
| * The Finnish musicians ] have a song called "Elvenpath" on their album ''Angels Fall First'' (1997) which features a Lord of the Rings sample. They also have references to ]'s works in their song ], released on the album of the same name, in 2001, including Elbereth and Lorien. They also recorded with the ] for their album ] released in 2004. | |||
| * The ] composed original music to all songs and poems in ''The Lord of the Rings'', publishing 4 CDs in total over a period of 8 years, as well as a compilation album in 2006, ordering their songs as they appear in the books. Their work is approved by the ]. | |||
| * The group ] has a song called "The House of Tom Bombadil" (''Nickel Creek'', 2000). | |||
| * The ] have named one of their tracks "Tolkien" (2001), and the remix "The Lord of the Rings". | |||
| * The ] ] band ], named after the forest Lothlórien in the novel, released an album in 2002 entitled ''Secrets of the Eldar'' with such songs as "The Voice of Saruman". | |||
| * ] started writing the songs for ''The 'Rings Project'' (]) in 1972. | |||
| * The music CD "Journey of the Ring" (2005) features an hour of music inspired by Tolkien's novel. The music follows the story chapter by chapter. Called "the unofficial sound track to the books" by fans. http://www.cdbaby.com/all/peters | |||
| * Australian band ] released the album 'Shadow Rising' in 2004; this was inspired by The Lord of The Rings, but made no actual mentions of Tolkien character-names or place-names. The CD is Part One of a projected Two-album 'RingLord' concept, the second album being 'Winds of Change' intended for release in 2006. | |||
| * Many metal bands, especially ] bands have taken their band name from ''The Lord of the Rings''. Typically the names of evil places and characters are taken. Examples are ] (formerly known as Uruk-Hai), ] (formerly known as Minas Morgul), ], ], ], ]. There are also various metal bands owing their names to Tolkien's fictional languages, such as Aglarond (Mexico), Akallabêth (Sweden), ] (Sweden), Almáriel (Russia), Amon Din (Serbia), Anarion (Australia), Arda (Austria), Avatar (Belgium), Azaghal (Finland), Azrael (Spain), Cirith Gorgor (Netherlands), Cirith Ungol (US), Dol Amroth (Greece), Izengard (India), Fangorn (Germany), Mithril (Dominican Republic) and many more. | |||
| * The Swedish New Frontier band ] uses a blend of two samples, one from '']'' that features Australian actor ], the other from '']'' (which has the same actor in it), as the introduction to their song 'Hybrid' (the same song also features sounds from a ], a synthesizer that re-creates original ] sounds). | |||
| * The symphonic rock band ] was named after ''The Silmarillion'' | |||
| * British stoner rock band ] has tracks on their album ] named "Lothlorien" and "Saruman's Wish", after the Elven forest and the evil wizard in ''The Lord of the Rings''. | |||
| * All songs by the Finnish metal band ] are based on Middle Earth. | |||
| * Almost all songs by Austrian ] bands ] and Rivendell are based on Middle Earth. | |||
| * Post-hardcore band ] have a song on their eponymous debut album titled "March of the Ents" | |||
| * Speed Metal band ] has a song entitled "]". | |||
| * There was an early heavy metal band in Lousiana named Shadowfax after Gandalf's steed in ''The Lord of the Rings''. | |||
| * Prog-rock keyboard player ] has an album entitled "] - which is a re-issue of previously recorded material." | |||
| * The ] band Pink Floyd has a song called "The Gnome," which is about the race of ]s. | |||
| * The ] artist ] has an album entitled '']''. Also, the name "Arkenstone" was taken from '']''. | |||
| * ] (born Stephen Ross Porter) of British rock band ] took his name from the hobbit ] (better known as Pippin) in '']''. | |||
| * Progressive rock band ] recorded the track "Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider" with obvious references to '']'', for their album "]". | |||
| *Funk Metal weirdos ] track 'The Pimp the Bitch and the Magic Beans' is based around the encounter between Bilbo and Gollum in '']'' and contains numerous lines from the book. | |||
| * The song Mein Schatz (My Treasure or more likely My Precious) by German metal band ] is an obvious Lord of the Rings reference. It is sung from the point of view of Gollum and features the chorus: "Mein Schatz, es ist mein Schatz / nimm den Ring von Finger / denn ich will den zurück / Mein Schatz, es ist main Schatz". This translates to "My precious, it is my precious / take the ring from the finger / because I want the ring back / My precious, it is my precious". | |||
| ===Literature=== | |||
| * ]'s characters in ''Dies the Fire'' and its sequels include a young woman who is obsessed with the works of Tolkien, and ends up founding a military group known as the "Dunedain Rangers." The villain of the trilogy also refers to the trilogy, using ]'s emblem of the ] as the flag of the new nation he founds. | |||
| * ]'s novel '']'' features an encounter with a Gollum-like creature, which jumps on to the main character's boat and proclaims "It'ssss my birthday." ] then hits the creature with an oar, before quipping "'Orrible little bugger." | |||
| * There are various references to ''The Lord of the Rings'', e.g. to the Ents, in ''The Talisman'' (1984), a novel by ] and ]. There are also references to ''The Lord of the Rings'' in several of Stephen King's other novels (e.g. Insomnia, The Stand, etc.). This is most notable in his fantasy series ], which is based on the ] poem ''Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'', but severely influenced by ''Lord of the Rings''. | |||
| * The modern-era hero in ]'s '']'' (1999) views himself as a dwarf, his grandfather the ] as an elf, an ex-] as one of the race of Men, and refers to his nemesis (a psychotic lawyer) as "Gollum". He recognizes ] as a wizard and, true to form, Enoch appears in the ] as well. | |||
| * In ]'s novel '']'' a character uses imagery from ''The Lord of the Rings'' to warn her comrades that their base has been taken over, telling them that their return is like ]'s return to ]. | |||
| * ] has an inn called "The Nine Rings" in '']'', and when Rand reads the sign in front of the inn, the book states, 'Rand swung down with a smile and tied Red to one of the hitching posts out front. "The Nine Rings" had been one of his favorite adventure stories when he was a boy; he supposed it still was.' | |||
| * In the '']'' series, several people are named after places or people in ''The Lord of the Rings'', examples are a portrait in the Headmaster's Office, called Everard ], a boy by the name of Neville Longbottom and an author named Bathilda Bagshot, in which Bagshot Row is the place where Bag End is located. | |||
| ===Games=== | |||
| ====Computer and video games==== | |||
| {{main|Middle-earth in video games}} | |||
| * ] an ] based in ] as established by ]. | |||
| * In the ] ], there is an inn called "The Dancing Donkey", which is a spoof of the Prancing Pony. | |||
| * In the Adventure game ], the character of Crow mentions that he was 'sidekick of the year', he then says he lost next year to 'some fat short guy, all he did was carry someone up a mountain', alluding to Sam carrying Frodo. | |||
| * In ], an item that can be caught in Underwater Fishing is the Two Ring, spoofing the One Ring. | |||
| * In ], the weapon known as "Elven Bow" has the description "A heroic elf used this to return a lost ring." | |||
| * In ], one can fish a ring called "The 1 Ring" from various locations. When read, the description says: "Not quite good as the 2 Ring." | |||
| ====Other games==== | |||
| *Several games have been based directly on ''The Lord of the Rings'' and related works, including, amongst many, ]'s ''War of the Ring'' (1977), ]' (ICE's) ] game (MERP, 1982-1999) and ] (MECCG, 1995-1999), the ''Lord of the Rings'' series of board games by ] (2000 onward), a variant of ] (2002) as well as ] (2001) made by ]. | |||
| * In 2003, ] released '']''. | |||
| *The ''Lord of the Rings'' books were one of the main original inspirations for the '']'' ], and hence continue to be a major influence on the entire field of role-playing and ] having fantasy epic themes. | |||
| * The Wargames Research Group set of fantasy miniatures rules, '']'' (HotT), was first published in 1991. | |||
| * Some of the ]'s ] factions relate to those found in ]'s writings. | |||
| * In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, one of the human male's jokes is a joking description of ''The Lord of The Rings'', except the One Ring is replaced by a bracelet and instead of Hobbits the main character is a gnome. | |||
| * Early iterations of the Japanese RPG series ] are inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and thus, indirectly, by ''The Lord of the Rings''. More directly, the games usually contain ''mithril'' armor and items (as early upgrades) that the player's party can buy or win. | |||
| ==Satire and parody based on ''The Lord of the Rings''== | |||
| * An internet-based ] community produced , a short animated parody. | |||
| * An independent film company in South Carolina released as a college humor project. | |||
| * A soft core ] comedy entitled "]". | |||
| * The ] satire '']'', and its prequel '']''. | |||
| * A little-known ] Radio series, '']'' (1980) attempted to parody heroic fantasy in the style of '']''. | |||
| * A German resynchronization of the ''Fellowship'''s first twenty minutes, called '''' (''"Senseless in Middle-earth"''), portrays the characters as highly drug addicted. | |||
| * Quickbeam and Bombadil, '''', mix Tolkien's fantasy world with hip-hop. | |||
| * Two New York City based authors, Jessica and Chris, parody Tolkien's work in combination with ] in ''''. | |||
| * Several former members of '']'' created '''' which parodies the trilogy. | |||
| * MST3K's ] and ] also recorded an audio commentary track mocking Peter Jackson's film adaptation of ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' for Nelson's ] service. Unlike the other films featured on the service, it is a film that Nelson actually considered to be good. | |||
| * The first chapter of ''The Woad To Wuin'' by ] is entitled "Lord of the Thing". | |||
| * '''', a "transcribed electronic text version", written by the Tolkien fans of the rec.arts.books.tolkien newsgroup as a reply to those who ask where can they download an electronic copy of the book. It has lots of fan in-jokes, like whether Balrogs have wings or not, a long-standing debate in the Tolkien fandom; as well as many references to Communism and the overthrow of the rich. | |||
| * ] claim that their parody ''Frodo'' was rejected as a theme song for Peter Jackson's movies. Incidentally, Bret McKenzie (one half of the band) played an elf in the ''Fellowship'', and his character (now known as ]) has become an unusual web celebrity, attracting and even a . | |||
| * '''', a Swiss parody of Peter Jackson's films. However it has received mixed reviews. | |||
| * ]'s Lord of the Rings parodies The Feeble Shtick of Ka-Ching!, The Two+ Hours, and Rehash of the Thing. | |||
| * ] spoofed the series with ''The Lords of the Bling'', with various actors/actresses portraying characters as Gandalf, Frodo, Legolas, etc. | |||
| * '']'', by Fergus McNeill. He became famous during the eighties for games such as ''Bored of the Rings'' (influenced by, but not adapted from, the Harvard Lampoon book) and ''The Boggit''. | |||
| * '''', ] ] ]'s satire. | |||
| * '']'', BBC Radio/TV satirical comedy show regularly features ''Lord of the Rings''-themed sketches, usually with the characters of Gandalf, Saruman and Frodo. | |||
| * Bobo, a very popular ] voice-over video on scene from the first film, which features Boromir and Frodo as gay lovers. It spawned many other voice-overs. | |||
| * British Comedy duo ] have also satired and spoofed in detail Peter Jackson's ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' in a BBC 2002 Easter Special entitled "The Egg". | |||
| * A parody entitled '']'' has done the rounds of bulletin boards systems. Based on the ] indebted "]" it retells scenes, primarily from the Peter Jackson films, in the style of a '1337 hax0r' or online gamer. | |||
| * A Spanish voice-over video of Gollum debating about which is the best football (soccer) video game. | |||
| * '''' A one man show by ], reciting and parodying the three films in an hour. | |||
| *In another episode of '']'', ] announced to Springfield Elementary School that they are going to have a school medieval festival. Class bully ] excitedly asks, "You mean like ''The Lord of the Rings''?!", and Skinner replies, "No! Nothing like ''The Lord of the Rings''!" Note that readers dispute whether or not Middle-earth is medieval; the medieval look of the film trilogy is due to concept designer and book illustrator ]. | |||
| * '''' A parody starring four people portraying multiple characters each and condensing the first third of the story to under a quarter of an hour. | |||
| * ] produced the ], a parody with ] about the ], in which ] uses the ] in a piercing. The 4 minute episode comes as a hidden extra in the first DVD of the 4-disc set of ]. | |||
| * '''', a musical stage production featuring nine performers each playing multiple characters. | |||
| *A Russified version of the film trilogy exists, featuring a voice-over translation of all 3 films. The author of the opus is a lieutenant of police by the name of ]; unsurprisingly, his "translation" re-imagines the story as one of cops and robbers, oligarchs and the FSB (ex-KGB) chasing each other through the land of Honduras (the name of that particular country has in Russian peculiar connotations of being "a very silly place off the edge of the world"). The Ring's significance is now not its inherent evil but its status as stolen property sought by its rightful (and horribly demented and criminal) owner, who raises in his native Mordovia vast Nazi-like armies (complete with German accents, courtesy of the "translator") to reclaim it. The translation infuses the films with countless Russian pop culture jokes and allusions to Soviet anecdotes, movies, books and historical personages: for example, Legolas and Gimli speak in Estonian and Georgian accents respectively; ] becomes ] and his affliction the consequence of alcoholism; and Gandalf is а Major in the Honduras police force. "]" also put together a brand new parody soundtrack for the movies, featuring dozens of songs ranging from modern pop like Tatu, Leningad and Rammstein to old Soviet Communist anthems, with some songs by revered artists like ] and ] sprinkled in. There are also some video jokes, such as the practically seamless addition of sunglasses to Lord Elrond (who, in this version, was Agent Smith in disguise) and the brief pan to gigantic statues of the South Park children done in white marble in Denethor's halls. Commonly known as "]", the parody established its author as a household name in Russia. | |||
| * ] and ] had a short sketch on ] of them dressed up as Frodo and Sam, calling each other's names out. | |||
| * A critique of the ] parodying ''The Lord of the Rings'' entitled '']'' is downloadable from ] Bay Area ] | |||
| *In the MMORPG ], there is an adventure in the Itznotyerzitz Mine that has many references to the Mine from ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', such as "Speak "Friend," and enter" changed to "Speak,Frat Boy, and enter." | |||
| * The Sprite Comic ] contains an adventure entitled "The Lord of the Wings," which is loosely based on the plot of ''The Lord of the Rings''. Here, the rings are replaced with buffalo wings. | |||
| *The All Saved Freak Band has an album called "For Christians, Elves, and Lovers," memorializing Tolkien's death. They have one song called "Mordor." | |||
| * On albinoblacksheep.com there is a ''Lord of the Rings'' rap title "The Towers are da Playas" including Orcs and Gollum. It is made using Flash. | |||
| * ]'s ] released a video entitled "]" with plot, music and character similarities to ''The Lord of the Rings''. | |||
| * Poorly translated (]) captions on Asian bootlegs led to articles on , and . | |||
| * A two-week spoof in the '']'' cartoon strip, where Monty seeks the "Lord of the Thing." | |||
| *] and ] created a parody of ''The Lord of the Rings'' on their sketch show '']''. They named the sketch ''''. | |||
| * A site online has recreated a good bit of the ], with promises of more to come, using ] and various other props. '''' | |||
| * A Chilean parody named ''El Señor de los Ladrillos'' (''Lord of the Bricks'' in English) uses Chilean pop culture and news references to parody the first half of the ] book. '''' | |||
| * In Roger Van Der Weide's Sonic Movie Madness series, Team Sonic's story is based on Lord of the Rings | |||
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