Celebrate Tolkien Week with Our Limerick Contest

In honour of Tolkien Week (and Feast Week), Middle-earth News is holding a Tolkien-inspired Limerick Contest. The rules are simple and anyone is free to participate. This is your chance to write a limerick on anything Tolkien – the Professor or his work – that inspires you. The contest starts today and will run until 11:59 p.m. EDT on September 28. The winner, which the Middle-earth News staff shall judge to have written the best limerick, will be announced on October 3, 2014.

To enter, simply write your limerick in the comments box below.

Limerick Guidelines:

• Remember, a limerick is a silly poem with FIVE LINES.
• They are often funny or nonsensical.
• The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 8 or 9).
• The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 5 or 6).
• Limericks often start with the line “There once was a…” or “There was a…”

I’ll start.

There once was a hobbit with big feet
One day a dwarf he happened to meet
Thorin was his name
Erebor he wished to claim
But first a mighty dragon to beat

Now it’s your turn!

Limerick contest information and rules: 

• Create one Tolkien-inspired limerick poem. Only ONE limerick poem per person!
• Please submit your limerick in the comment section below. 
• The contest will run for 1 week, from Sunday, Sep. 21, 2014 to Sunday, Sep. 28, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
• All limericks submitted must be YOUR original work and free of copyright infringement.
• Nothing disrespectful, out of line, or exceeding a PG-13 rating will be allowed. We have the right to disqualify any submission that does not comply.
• Anyone from anywhere can enter. No age or location restrictions.
• ONE Grand Prize Winner will be selected by our Staff and announced on Oct. 3, 2014. Honourable mentions will be issued at our discretion.
• The Grand Prize to be fulfilled by our Sponsors – they will be sending the prizes directly to the winner.

Grand Prize:

• 1 Gloin Statue from Weta Workshop
• 1 Hobbit journal, 2 buttons, and 1 laptop decal from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• 1 Medium Bag End Model from The Middle-earthTM Collection

Middle-earth News wishes to send out a huge THANK YOU to our generous sponsors, without whom this contest would not be possible (or at least not nearly as awesome)!

Weta Workshop

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Colin Patten (The Middle-earthTM Collection)