{"id":80320,"date":"2013-10-10T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=80320"},"modified":"2013-10-10T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T15:49:46","slug":"how-do-you-see-smaug-enter-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/10\/10\/80320-how-do-you-see-smaug-enter-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"How do YOU see Smaug?  Enter to win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Smaug-donato-1000.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67371 no-lazyload\" alt=\"Smaug by Donato Giancola\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Smaug-donato-1000-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Smaug-donato-1000-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Smaug-donato-1000-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Smaug-donato-1000-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Our good friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolkien.co.uk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harper Collins <\/a>&#8211; Tolkien publishers in the UK &#8211; are running a competition where they want to see YOUR version of Tolkien&#8217;s mighty dragon Smaug!\u00a0 They say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Smaug is an incredible and mysterious character, his sleep and anger equally frightful.\u00a0\u00a0J.R.R. Tolkien described and illustrated the dragon with awe-inspiring words and artworks.\u00a0\u00a0Now it\u2019s your turn to create your version of Smaug, as you imagined it when you first read J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s descriptions.\u00a0\u00a0Illustrators, designers, <i>Hobbit<\/i> fans of all ages \u2013 anyone can enter the competition and submit their Smaug\u2019s artworks to win a fantastic grand prize!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>That prize is a copy of your own illustration, beautifully mounted on canvas!\u00a0 The winner will also get a collection of Harper Collins\u00a0<em>Hobbit <\/em>books.\u00a0 Ten runners-up will win an exclusive, deluxe print of their artworks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tolkien_smaug.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-59877 no-lazyload\" alt=\"Smaug, The Hobbit\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tolkien_smaug-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Get out those pens, pencils, inks, paint and whatever else takes your fancy, grab a copy of <em>The Hobbit<\/em>, reread Tolkien&#8217;s description of the fiery worm, and get illustrating!\u00a0 Full details of the contest, and where to submit your artwork, can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/tolkiensmaugcomp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 The contest runs until December 13th, when (in many countries) we&#8217;ll finally be able to see Peter Jackson&#8217;s Smaug in all his glory on the big screen!<\/p>\n<p>Harper Collins will be releasing various movie tie-in books for<em> The Desolation of Smaug<\/em> on November 7th.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll bring you details &#8211; and a chance to win copies! &#8211; nearer the time.\u00a0 Meanwhile you can find more information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolkien.co.uk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harper Collins&#8217; website, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/tolkiensmaugcomp\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to enter the Smaug Artwork competition.]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our good friends at Harper Collins &#8211; Tolkien publishers in the UK &#8211; are running a competition where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1362,163,85,14,7,153,18,1359,148,1911,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-merchandise-books","category-events-contests","category-events","category-hobbit-book","category-tolkien-life","category-merchandise","category-shop","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tolkien_smaug.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-kTu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80321,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80320\/revisions\/80321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}