Bored of the Rings/YMMV

• Cliché Storm: Presciently presented, as the conversion of Tolkien's original creativity into the cliches of heroic fantasy had barely begun at that point.
• Memetic Mutation: Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons.
• Weird Al Effect: An interesting variation -- while LOTR itself is still familiar to the point that nobody past Middle School age can call themselves a geek unless they've read it, many of the sources drawn on for the Parody Names and such are all but forgotten. A working knowledge of 1950s and 1960s politics, pop culture and advertising adds a lot to the experience.