A Contest -- Win free copies of The Hidden Stars

[Teresa Edgerton]

By the grace of I, Brian (thanks Brian), I would like to announce a contest.

The prizes are signed first edition copies of my epic The Hidden Stars plus (something you can't get in bookstores) signed maps of the world of the story.

The winners will be the first three people to PM me the correct answers to the following three questions:

1. In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings the chief of the Nazgul, the Black Captain, is also known as the Witch-King. What is the name of the kingdom he once ruled?

2. In T. H. White's The Once and Future King, there is a painful scene in which the Orkney children, Gawain and his brothers, slay a beautiful mythical beast. What was the beast that they killed?

3. In E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros the main action of the story takes place on what planet?
***or*** (alternate question, you get to choose which one you would like to answer on this one)
In Tad Williams's The Dragonbone Chair what is the name of Prester-John's sword?

[Mark Robson]

Rats! I only know two of the answers and am unlikely to get the third!

[dwndrgn]

Dang. I can't answer either - I have no copy of the White work available and have never read it (!!) and my copy of the Tad Williams work has long since been shuffled off to other interested readers. Sadly, my over-read copy of LOTR was destroyed by some avid fan who couldn't stop reading it and after so many pages got lost, the whole thing had to be abandoned
Shucks. Why couldn't you ask something about The Darkweaver Legacy or Shadowmarch or even The Callahan Chronicles? Those I could answer .

I suppose I'll just have to wait and buy my own copy of The Hidden Stars someday

[Teresa Edgerton]

There are no real rules to this contest. You can research the answers on the web. Form a syndicate and share the answers you already know. Deluge me with multiple entries in which you guess at the answers. (I'd probably enjoy the attention.) Whatever your devious little minds can devise.

[I, Brian]

Heh, good to see the questions aren't too easy.

[Teresa Edgerton]

But not so difficult that we don't already have a winner: Dead Riverdragon. Congratulations.

Two more books/maps left to be won.

[Dead Riverdragon]

Thanks for the opportunity Kelpie and Brian, I think that's the first thing I've won since my Blue Peter badge years back-looking forward to a cracking read! I'll be sure to return the favour once I'm pulished

[lester]

just sent you a pm...

[dwndrgn]

Me too. I couldn't stand it and had to give it a try. A little bit of research later and we'll see if I was correct. I love research.

[Teresa Edgerton]

You're both winners! But since lester slipped through on a sort of technicality (answering both versions of question number three correctly), I decided it was only fair to send out an extra book/map.

So one more prize still left ...

[lester]

yeah!
this is fun. i think im going to do it once i find a signed book that people would actually answer questions for.

[Teresa Edgerton]

The books are in the mail! You should have them soon, lester and dwndrgn -- and in about a week Dead Riverdragon. That is, if the US Post Office does not lie.

Still one book remaining to be won.

[Teresa Edgerton]

And the contest is closed. (Perhaps we'll do another one when the sequel comes out.) Leto claimed the final book. Congratulations. And thanks for participating everyone.

(I'm curious to know how many of you had to look up the answer on the Eddison question, and how many of you actually knew.)

[lester]

i got my copy in the mail today, it looks great, and the map is pretty darn cool
thanks a lot!

[Teresa Edgerton]

Oh good. I didn't think it would take long to go less than a hundred miles, but overnight delivery is still pretty good.

Glad you like the map. (I keep a tiny gnomish cartographer in a cage on my desk for just these occasions.) Hope you enjoy the book.