The Trustees of The Tolkien Society have released the shortlist for The Tolkien Society Awards 2020. Members have until April 17 to cast their votes.

The shortlist for the Awards is as follows:

Best Artwork

• “Great Gate at Minas Tirith” by Jay Johnstone
• “Isle of Peace / Mandos / Isle of the Dead” by Stefan Bleyl
• “Taniquetil” by Ted Nasmith
• “The Professor” by Jenny Dolfen

Best Article

• “Deconstructing Durin’s Day: Science, Scientific Fan Fiction, and the Fan-Scholar” by Kristine Larsen (Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 8, no. 1)
• “Tolkien in East Yorkshire 1917–1918” by Michael Flowers (Something has gone crack, ed. by Janet Brennan and Annika Rottinger)
• “Tolkien’s Mandos, Pratchett’s Death” by Justin Lewis-Anthony (Tolkien the Pagan?, ed. by Anna Milon)

Best Book

• Something has gone crack by Janet Brennan and Annika Rottinger (eds)
• Tolkien’s Library by Oronzo Cilli
• Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer by John M. Bowers

Best Online Content

• Aubusson weaves Tolkien (aubusson-tapisserie.com)
• Men of the West (YouTube Channel)
• The Prancing Pony Podcast (theprancingponypodcast.com)

Outstanding Contribution Award

The recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award 2020 has been selected by the Trustees and will be announced in due course.

The Trustees of The Tolkien Society have released the shortlist for The Tolkien Society Awards 2019. Members have until March 29 to cast their votes.

The shortlist for the Awards is as follows:

Best Artwork

• “Winter in Rivendell” by Soni Alcorn-Hender
• “The Two Towers Condiment Set” by Heather Coleman
• “Song for a Queen” by Elena Kukanova
• “The King’s Tower Falls” by Alan Lee
• “Durin’s Crown and the Mirrormere” by Ted Nasmith

Best Article

• “A Fall of Heavenly Iron” by Martin Beech (published in Amon Hen 274 (November 2018)
• “Was Tolkien really racist?” by Dimitra Fimi (published on The Conversation website, 6 December 2018)
• “‘Tolkien in Oxford’ (BBC, 1968): A Reconstruction” by Stuart D. Lee (published in Tolkien Studies 15, 2018)

Best Book

• Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth by Catherine McIlwaine
• The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. by Christopher Tolkien
• A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger, ed. by John D. Rateliff

Best Website

• Luke Shelton (luke-shelton.com)
• Parf Edhellen (www.elfdict.com)
• TolkienGuide.com (www.tolkienguide.com)
• TolkenBooks.us (www.tolkienbooks.us)

Outstanding Contribution Award

The recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award 2019 has been selected by the Trustees and will be announced in due course.

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

The Trustees of The Tolkien Society have released the shortlist for The Tolkien Society Awards 2018. Members have until April 13 to cast their votes.

Best Artwork

• “The Hunt” by Jenny Dolfen
• “Yet now did he see Tinuviel dancing in the twilight” by Alan Lee
• “Gwaihir the Windlord bears Gandalf from Isengard” by Ted Nasmith

Best Article

• “On Tolkien’s presentation of distributism through the Shire” by Jay Atkins (published in Mallorn 58)
• “‘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)
• “Hobbits? … And what may they be?” by Michael Flowers (published in Journal of Tolkien Research 4)

Best Book

• There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: Essays on Tolkien’s Middle-earth by Verlyn Flieger
• Beren and Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. by Christopher Tolkien
• The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, 2nd edn, by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond

Best Website

• TolkienBooks.US
• TOLKNI?TY (the blog of  Ryszard Derdzi?ski) [Apologies — WordPress won’t reproduce all of these characters.]
• Too Many Books and Never Enough (the blog of Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull)

Outstanding Contribution Award

• Alan Reynolds
• Priscilla Tolkien

The winners of the 2017 Tolkien Society Awards have been announced. The awards “recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom.”

This year, for the first time, Tolkien Society members picked the winners, by voting on shortlists prepared by the Trustees.

Best Artwork

• “Maglor” by Elena Kukanova

Best Article

• “How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front” by Joseph Loconte

Best Book

• A Secret Vice, ed. Dimitra Fimi and Andy Higgins

Outstanding Contribution

• John Garth

The ballot for the fourth annual Tolkien Society Awards is now online and members have until April 8 to vote.

The Tolkien Society Awards recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom. The winners will be announced April 22 during the Annual Dinner at the Springmoot and AGM in Warwick, UK.

Best Artwork

• “Finrod Crossing the Helcaraxe” by WiseNailArt
• “Flight from Amon Hen” by Jay Johnstone
• “Maglor” by Elena Kukanova

Best Article

• “How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front” by Joseph Loconte
• “’The Lord of the Rings’ as Pastoral” by Adam Roberts
• “Tolkien and the aesthetics of philology” by Edmund Weiner

Best Book

• A Secret Vice, ed. Dimitra Fimi and Andy Higgins
• The Elvish Writing Systems of J.R.R. Tolkien, by Matthew D. Coombes
• The Hobbit Facsimile First Edition, by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, ed. Verlyn Flieger

Outstanding Contribution Award

• John Garth
• Hammond and Scull

In the Best Website category, the Trustees “felt there was no clarity amongst the nominations, so have decided that there will be no award in this category this year.”