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#REDIRECT [[Bored of the Rings: The Two+ Hours]]
{{book
|title=Bored of the Rings: The Two+ Hours
|image=[[Image:Mad428.png|250px]]
|author=[[Desmond Devlin]] (writer) [[Hermann Mejia]] (art)
|isbn=
|publisher=Mad Magazine (issue 428)
|date=January/February [[2003]]
|format=
|pages=7
|}}
 
'''Bored of the Rings: The Two+ Hours''' is a story contained in ''[[wikipedia:Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' #428, cover date April [[2003]]. It is written by [[Desmond Devlin]] with artwork by [[Hermann Mejia]].
 
The comic satirizes ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'' as ''Bored of the Rings: The Two+ Hours'' in seven pages of cartoons. The story is contained in a series of standalone drawings, each spoofing a major scene in the movies, or referencing a then-current event in American media.
 
Though it shares a name with the famous [[Harvard Lampoon]] [[Bored of the Rings (book)|book of the same name]], it takes only some names, like Legolamb and Spam Gangrene. Other characters are Dodo Gaggings, Gandoof the Gray (or Gandoof the White), Princess Argon, Golfclub (aka Cheesebal or Jar-Jar Jr.), Baggybuns, Pimple, Peppercorn and the Slobbits.
 
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