It's always good to ask questions! If no one else answers one, you start thinking about it yourself. So it is with my question on the difference between "parody" and "travesty". The more I reflect on the latter, the more it seems to me to be a negative kind of copy, a mockery of the original. Wouldn't the orcs and trolls be made as a travesty of Elves and Ents? Then I conclude that I would prefer to stick to the term "parody", denoting a type of play with words, friendly and fun-loving.
Still, the question remains - what would Tolkien think of the parodies on his works?
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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