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
@Mike Glyer: The, er, interesting characters in the second “Best Website” item came out as question marks. Let’s see if WordPress mangles when I try. 😉
TOLKNI?TY (the blog of Ryszard Derdzi?ski)
ETA: Yay, it’s WordPress! Boo, it’s WordPress! I gots questions marks too, darn-it.
ETA: TOLKNIĘTY (the blog of Ryszard Derdziński)
Yay! HTML entities FTW. & #x118; (remove the space after the “&”) and & # x144; (ditto)
Now why didn’t I check the box so I’d see if you replied? Sigh. 😉