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Published on December 23, 2010

Sam and Frodo
Sam and Frodo

The results are in!

The folks over at Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks sponsored a geek poetry contest with GeekMom.com and here are the winning poems.

Readers of Geek Mom were asked to submit a poem in any form of their choosing (haiku, rap, free verse, Klingon sonnet) on any geeky topic: Tolkien, Star Wars, Star Trek, gelatinous cubes, World of Warcraft war chants, hobbit drinking songs, odes to Harry Potter, ballads to honor Gary Gygax….

Here’s a sample of the winning haiku:

Samwise and Frodo:
You think they’re about to kiss,
But they never do.

—Natalie Jones

Here’s another:

MM1EDP24

Gelatinous Cube
?Gelatinous Cube?
Sterical noob?
Your shape confounds me.?
Perverse.?
Subtle and simple and slothful.?
Errol Otus feared you as I do.?
His art wasn’t as good as the other guys’.

—Len White

(Y’all know what “MM1EDP24”is, right?)

Poems that somehow managed to work in the name “Ethan Gilsdorf” (which, according to legend, is either Elvish or Elvis) were hard to resist. Winners got autographed copies of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.

The rest of the bards’ fabulous winning works can be read here.

You can also read the other non-winning but nonetheless worthy entries here.

Hope you enjoy. Happy holidays!


Ethan Gilsdorf is the author of the award-winning, travel memoir/pop culture investigation Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms (now in paperback). Follow his adventures at http://www.fantasyfreaksbook.com.

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Ethan Gilsdorf

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I'm a Somerville, Massachusetts-based author of "Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms." I also publish travel, arts, and pop culture stories regularly in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and other magazines and newspapers worldwide. My blog "Geek Pride" is seen regularly on PsychologyToday.com, and I also blog for Tor.com. I have also been a guest on talk radio as a fantasy and escapism expert. And I watch the extended edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy at least once a year, and I play with my dice whenever I can. You can follow my adventures (and read more about the book) here: http://www.fantasyfreaksbook.com
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