Best Artwork 2018: “The Hunt” by Jenny Dolfen

The winners of The Tolkien Society Awards 2018 were announced April 22. The awards were voted by members from shortlists prepared by the Society’s Trustees.

The Society’s awards —

recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom, highlighting our long-standing charitable objective to “seek to educate the public in, and promote research into, the life and works of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE.”

Best Artwork

• “The Hunt” by Jenny Dolfen

Best Article

• “‘Tears are the very wine of blessedness’: joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings” by Dimitra Fimi (published in Death and Immortality in Middle-earth)

Best Book

• Beren and Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. by Christopher Tolkien

Best Website

• Too Many Books and Never Enough (the blog of Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull)

Outstanding Contribution Award

• Priscilla Tolkien