{"id":5994,"date":"2010-09-13T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2012-02-20T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T19:18:35","slug":"lord-of-rings-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/lord-of-rings-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Contest! Tweets from Middle Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going crazy with contests here at The Bonus View lately. It&#8217;s almost as if we appreciate our readers and want to give back to them or something. This week, we&#8217;re offering up all three of the standalone &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; Blu-ray releases and some other assorted swag. I think you&#8217;ll find this contest to be a lot of fun. Follow after the break for the rules on how to win.<\/p>\n<h6><!--more--><\/h6>\n<p>Previously only available on Blu-ray in a <a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/2313\/lordringstrilogy.html\">trilogy box set<\/a>, each of the three &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; movies will be released as separate standalone Blu-ray discs tomorrow, September 14th. To mark the occasion, The Bonus View (in conjunction with Warner Home Video) will be giving away a prize pack that includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3622\/lord_fellowship.html\">The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings<\/a>&#8216; (Blu-ray Disc) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3623\/lord_towers.html\">The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers<\/a>&#8216; (Blu-ray Disc) <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/3624\/lord_king.html\">The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King<\/a>&#8216; (Blu-ray Disc) <\/li>\n<li>Two Bookmarks<\/li>\n<li>One New Zealand Jade Necklace<\/li>\n<li>One Navy Blue Ornament  <\/li>\n<li>One deck of LOTR Playing Cards<\/li>\n<li>One Travel Candle <\/li>\n<li>One Poster<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lotr_prizes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lotr_prizes.jpg\" title=\"Not exactly what I expected to find in my box of Cracker Jacks\" width=\"175\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lotr_prizes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lotr_prizes-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been living in a Hobbit hole for the past decade, see the official &#8216;<a href=\"www.LordOfTheRings.net\">Lord of the Rings<\/a>&#8216; web site for more information on the movies. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ringstrilogy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ringstrilogy.jpg\" title=\"You might call it a Three 'Rings' Circus\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ringstrilogy.jpg 606w, https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ringstrilogy-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will freely admit that I steal most of my contest ideas from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\">Topless Robot<\/a> blog, which has held two hilarious Twitter-themed contests in the past: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2010\/06\/tr_contest_tweets_from_the_death_star.php\">Tweets from the Death Star<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2010\/07\/tr_contest_tweets_from_gi_joe_hq_and_the_terrordro.php\">Tweets from G.I. Joe Headquarters<\/a>. I figured this would be a good time to put our own spin on this. Thus we have:<\/p>\n<h5>Tweets from Middle Earth<\/h5>\n<p>What does that mean? Imagine that Frodo, Samwise, and all the other characters from the &#8216;Rings&#8217; stories had cell phones or laptops, internet access, and the mentality of your average 13-year-old. What would they tweet to one another?<\/p>\n<p>Each participant will be allowed five tweets. These can be five individual tweets, or tweets that respond to one another in a conversation. In either case, there&#8217;s a limit of five. All tweets should follow the standard Twitter formatting of <strong>no more than 140 characters, including spaces<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Each tweet should start by identifying the character writing. (This part does not count toward the 140-character limit). If the tweet is a reply to another character, mark that with an &#8220;@&#8221; and the username. (This part <em>does<\/em> count toward the limit.) For example:<\/p>\n<p>Frodolicious: @ SamTheMan Old dude with long beard wants me to hike to Mount Doom today to throw a ring in the volcano. FML.<br \/>\nSamTheMan: @ Frodolicious Probably a pedophile. Call Chris Hansen lolz.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we only have one prize pack to give away, so there can only be one winner and no Runners Up.<\/p>\n<p>Limit of five tweets per person. Winners will be chosen at our subjective discretion based on whatever we happen to find the most clever or funniest. <\/p>\n<p>This contest is only open to entrants from the domestic United States. We will not ship internationally (whether you\u2019re a U.S. citizen or not). Employees of High-Def Digest or Internet Brands and their families are not eligible. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/contestrules.html\">Standard contest rules and conditions apply.<\/a> Winners of our previous contests are also not eligible to win, but may get Honorable Mentions.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for entry is this Friday, September 17th. The winner will be announced next week. Good luck to everyone who enters. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going crazy with contests here at The Bonus View lately. It&#8217;s almost as if we appreciate our readers and want to give back to them or something. This week, we&#8217;re offering up all three of the standalone &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; Blu-ray releases and some other assorted swag. 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