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For the mini-appendix readalong bingo cards talcaluin and I will be running a giveaway (with the approval of @tolkienreadalong!). The prizes won’t be much, but they’ll be handmade by me, talcaluin and carnetdesipho (and if anyone wants to add something, you’re all more than welcome!). Prizes will include picture requests, so don’t worry if you aren’t comfortable giving your address. The categories are:

Bingo cards (one winner per card): one entry for each three slots in a row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) or 4 squares in one card, two entries for two rows or any 6 squares in one card, four entries for a black out (all squares in one board complete). There will also be a prize for the person who completes the most squares, regardless of the amount of entries!

Most original posts: this is a prize for the person who posts the largest number of original posts in the tolkienreadalong tag since the beginning of this read-along. You must either be the original poster or have added substantially to the post for it to qualify. This will only be awarded if someone has put at least 8 original posts in the tag.

Contributing to the enjoyment of the read-along: this is a prize for a blog which was felt to help the spirit or enjoyment of the read-along. This could be posting cool stuff which we look forward to seeing or making people feel included, or anything else that makes the read-along better. This will be decided by us and the people who still hang out on readalong chat, with and opportunity for nominations before the decision.

Any blog can only receive one prize (so more people get to win!). If you want to participate in the bingo cards giveaway, you’ll have to make a roundup post and send it to us up to one week after the readalong is over (here’s an example from a past giveaway) - that way we’ll make sure no one is left out!

So, the prizes! What are they?

Each winner gets either a piece of caligraphy done by carnetdesipho or a papercut card or poster made by me.

you can tell a lot about someone by the type of music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your ipod, phone, itunes, media player, etc. and write down the first 10 songs. then pass this on to 10 people. one rule: no skipping.

L'Origine Nascosta- Ludovico Einaudi

Joker & The Thief - Wolfmother

Icarus - Bastille

Falling - Kate Rusby

Rebellion - Arcade Fire

How to be Dead - Snow Patrol

Colours - Grouplove

Purple Stain - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Still Young - Neon Trees

This Town - Newton Faulkner

Welcome to the most random assortment of music ever!

Normal is the sorting hat. Italics is Sauron.

So, Sauron,

Dark Lord Sauron

…

So, Sauron, where shall I put you? Shall it be in Gryffindor? Do you have courage, chivalry and daring? Shall it be in Hufflepuff? Are you loyal and hardworking? Or perhaps Ravenclaw, if you have wisdom and see knowledge. Or should I put you in Slytherin? Where belong cunning and ambition.

Yes

Now, don't get ahead of yourself. That was rhetorical, I shall be doing the sorting here, not you.

Where shall I start...

I tried to take over the world, you don't get much more ambitious than that.

You weren't supposed to answer that! But, I suppose that is as good place as any, so yes, I will start there. Trying to rule the world is good for your ambition ratings, however you took your time about starting to try. You spent an age serving Morgoth first. An age! And you showed some loyalty until fear made you go to self preservation. If you had tried to depose him, or had gone freelance as a dark lord, then you would have been sure of Slytherin, but as it is, you have a fair amount of Slytherin points from that but we must look further.

Do you know what is involved in trying to take over the world apart from ambition? Don't answer that. Do you? There is a lot of hard work. So I must give you some points towards being put in Hufflepuff.

I'd be better in Slytherin than Hufflepuff, after all, I made the rings, that's pretty cunning.

I never said anything about which would be better. The rings? Cunning? Perhaps, in the way they were designed and making the ring wraiths, but that's not the only thing they are. Taking on a large personal risk to advance your cause. That's not cunning. That's something a Gryffindor might do.

Don't put me in Gryffindor!

There's little risk of that. You would fit poorly, even if Godric were willing to take you. Continuing from where I left off, a Hufflepuff might also do that. It took some intelligence to make the rings, so that is a little towards Ravenclaw. You failed to see that anyone might destroy the one ring, so that loses you your Ravenclaw point, and is not so good for Slytherin.

Now, to sort you. Gryffindor is out. Godric doesn't want you and you are a poor fit, no chivalry, little heroics. For Ravenclaw, you have some knowledge, but you apply it poorly and do not much seek more, so that is out. It is between Hufflepuff and Slytherin.

I am ambitious and cunning. Slytherin, or I will destroy you.