The Simoquin Prophecies-Samit Basu

This is how a spoof should be .You stay nearly as faithful to the original storyline without bringing in the original characters and you don't make silly attempts at humor.It has got to be subtle.

The Simoquin Prophecies is not for the uninitiated.Samit Basu has basically used the Lord Of the Rings as a base of his book.It has several colorful characters and situations resembling Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men,a Hogwarts type magical school with magicians and spell binders .Also included is the ramayana,mahabharata,Egyptyian sphinxes and pharaoahs ,genies from the arabian desert and singing sirens who lure sailors to their deaths , fighting monks who closely resemble those in the Shaolin temple along with a dollop of Celtic representation in the form of a mysterious cicle of half broken stone megaliths(no prizes for guessing what I am referring to).And guess what,you can see movies and have real time aerial reconaissance

After a hero is found to defeat the dark lord who will supposedly wake up after lying defeated for two hundred years,he is sent on various quests to equip himself for the final showdown.Another young man,gifted with extraordinary powers of whch he had little knowledge till recently embarks on a journey to uncover his identity, and in the process dicover dangerous secrets.Forget the plot,just go along with the flow.