The Trustees of The Tolkien Society have released the shortlist for The Tolkien Society Awards 2021. Members have until April 9 to cast their votes.

The shortlist for the Awards is as follows:

BEST ARTWORK

• “A Year at Bag End” by Soni Alcorn-Hender
• “Elf-warrior: Sam at the Tower of Cirith Ungol” by Jay Johnstone
• “He Beheld a Vision of Gondolin Amid the Snow” by Ted Nasmith
• “Inside Information” by Norloth/Wenjin Lu

BEST ARTICLE

• “Defining and Defying Darkness,” by Verlyn Flieger in Mallorn 61, winter 2020
• “The Forest Haven Episode: How Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’s Hautdesert Shaped The Lord of the Ring’s Caras Galadhon” by Andoni Cossio (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, December 2020)
• “Greed and Blood: Powerful Objects in The Silmarillion and Javanese Book of Monarchs” by Putri Prihatini
• “Letting images speak for themselves: Tolkien’s rebus letter to Fr. Fancis Morgan, August 8, 1904” by Denis Bridoux (Beyond Bree, December 2020)
• “Tolkien’s Work on the Oxford English Dictionary: Some New Evidence From Quotation Slips” by Rachel Fletcher (Journal of Tolkien Research, issue 10, vol 2, 2020)

BEST BOOK

• Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, and Tolkien, Anna Vaninskaya
• Gleanings from Tolkien’s Garden, Renee Vink
• Hither Shore 14: Literary Worldbuilding (ed. Thomas Fornet-Ponse)
• Unfinished Tales (illustrated edition), J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, John Garth

BEST ONLINE CONTENT

• The Alliance of Arda (allianceofarda.org)
• Tolkien Art Index (tai.tolkienists.org)
• TolkienBooks.US (tolkienbooks.us)
• Tolkien Experience Podcast (luke-shelton.com/tolkienexperiencepodcast/
• Music of Middle-earth Podcast (facebook.com/musicofmiddleearthpodcast)

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD

The recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award 2021 has been selected by the Trustees and will be announced later.