Frankel’s New Hobbit Parody

Parodies are the cornerstone of Valerie Estelle Frankel’s career. Now the author who’s sent up Harry Potter, Buffy, and The Hunger Games has twisted The Hobbit into a Gordian knot of mirth, judging by her description on Amazon:

An Unexpected Parody: The Unauthorized Spoof of The Hobbit revisits the film with mayhem, mirth, and magic missiles—or at least, crumpled newspaper missiles. Torn Teepeeshield, the Hot Prince of the Dwarves, puts aside his developing stardom in dwarf cabaret to quest to the LameOldMountain and destroy the dragon Erpolushun, or in the common tongue, Smog. Gonedaft the Grey, formerly known as Gonedaft the Grizzled and Gonedaft of the Rainbow Tie-die that He So Can’t Pull Off, recruits Bumble Baglunch, country gentleman and professional coward, since as an avid comic book fan and all-around geek, Bumble’s too smart to fall prey to obvious fantasy clichés. Together with Bobbin, Noggin, Rover, Clover, Sloppy, Ploppy, Frappe, Hottie, Spottie, Quaff, Sloth, and Ezekiel the dwarves, they journey across Renfair Earth to revive their franchise. Destiny may be a word writers use to pave over plotholes, but Bumble is determined to triumph nonetheless and play as good a game of goblin golf as his ancestors.

It will be quite some book if it sustains this level of humorous invention all the way through

[Thanks to Willard Stone for the story.]

7 thoughts on “Frankel’s New Hobbit Parody

  1. “Together with Bobbin, Noggin, Rover, Clover, Sloppy, Ploppy, Frappe, Hottie, Spottie, Quaff, Sloth, and Ezekiel the dwarves….”

    I though those were the names of the children of the Palin and Romney families…?

  2. @David: I bet there’s a board someplace where somebody’s whooping it up over filling in the names of your joke with Obama and Biden.

  3. Mike, it’s probably so, no argument about that, but it’s easier and funnier with the P. & R. next generation because they’re larger-than-today’s norm families and already have unusual and euphonious first names.

    Robert, former SNL “Weekend Update” reporter Colin Quinn once said that Dick Armie had the most macho name in the history of the English language.

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