Lord of the Rings Online quest designers are now looking for good riddles to include in-game. Sent you riddle and win the contest.

Some brief advice from Content Team member Corsair:

1. Quests: We?re trying to implement some riddle quests. No guarantee here, because you can write a great riddle that just doesn?t happen to work right in the quest, but it is quite possible we could use your riddle verbatim as the basis of a quest, if it fits.

2. Lore scraps for scholars: Riddles can be the basis of many kinds of hidden lore. Your riddle, even though it might seem to refer to some homely and everyday item, might be selected as a bit of lore suitable for scholarly use in game.

Riddle advice:

1. Keep it short and sweet. A single verse, maybe just a couple of couplets. Only try for something longer if it?s good poetry, or at least good doggerel....

2. Simple rhyme is preferred to blank verse, but sonorous blank verse is good too. Alliteration is always apt. Scanning is good.

3. The riddle is generally a verse that describes something with the implicit question "what is it?"