The Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor publication founded in 1876 by seven undergraduates at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Lampoon Castle, designed by Edmund M. Wheelwright
Title Dingbat from an 1886 Lampoon
Cartoon by philosopher G. Santayana, Harvard class of 1886
1886 example of Crimson-teasing by Lampoon editor T.P. Sanborn
Bored of the Rings is a 1969 parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. This short novel was written by Henry Beard and Douglas Kenney, who later founded National Lampoon. It was published in 1969 by Signet for The Harvard Lampoon, and, unusually for a parody, has remained in print for over 50 years. It has been translated into at least twelve languages.
First edition