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Tolkien Society Awards

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Jenny Dolfen's painting "Eärendil the Mariner" won the inaugural Tolkien Society award for best artwork in 2014.[1]

The Tolkien Society Awards, established in 2014, are presented annually by The Tolkien Society to "recognise excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom". The awards are announced at the Annual Dinner during the Society's AGM and Springmoot weekend.[2]  

Recipients

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Best artwork

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Further information: Illustrating Tolkien
Artwork winners[3]
Year Artwork Artist Ref.
2014 "Eärendil the Mariner"[4] Jenny Dolfen [1]
2015 "Ulmo appears before Tuor"[5] Fabio Leone
2016 "The Prancing Pony"[6] Tomás Hijo
2017 "Maglor"[7] Elena Kukanova
2018 "The Hunt"[8] Jenny Dolfen
2019 "Durin's Crown and the Mirrormere"[9] Ted Nasmith [10]
2020 "The Professor"[11] Jenny Dolfen [12]
2021 "He Beheld a Vision of Gondolin Amid the Snow"[13] Ted Nasmith [14]
2022 "Minas Tirith built from 110000 LEGO Bricks"[15] STEBRICK (model), Stefano Mapelli (design), and BrickCreation (assembly) [16]
2023 "The Party Tree"[17] Serena Malyon [18]
2024 "Frodo's Inheritance"[19] Donato Giancola [20]

Best article

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Article winners[3]
Year Article Author Ref.
2014 "Tolkien and the boy who didn't believe in fairies"[21] John Garth [1]
2015 "A Hemlock by any other name…"[22] Michael Flowers
2016 "Tolkien's 'immortal four' meet for the last time"[23] John Garth
2017 "How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front",[24] in The New York Times, 30 June 2016 Joseph Loconte
2018 "'Tears are the very wine of blessedness': joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings",[25] in Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016 Dimitra Fimi
2019 "Was Tolkien really racist?"[26] in The Conversation, 6 December 2018 Dimitra Fimi [10]
2020 "Deconstructing Durin's Day: Science, Scientific Fan Fiction, and the Fan-Scholar"[27] in Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 8, no. 1 Kristine Larsen [12]
2021 "Defying and Defining Darkness”[28] in Mallorn 61 Verlyn Flieger [14]
2022 "A Song of Greater Power: Tolkien's Construction of Lúthien Tinúviel”,[29] in Mallorn 62 Clare Moore [16]
2023 "All that glisters is not gold”[30] in Mallorn 63 Sara Brown [18]
2024 "The Tale of 'Aldarion and Erendis': Not Just a Medieval Love Story”[31] in Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 18, no. 1 Sara Brown [20]

 Best book

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Book winners[3]
Year Book Author(s) Ref.
2014 Middle-Earth Envisioned ("Best Book") Paul Simpson and Brian Robb [1]
The Fall of Arthur ("Best Novel") J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by  Christopher Tolkien
2015 Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by  Christopher Tolkien
2016 The Art of The Lord of the Rings Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
2017 A Secret Vice J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andy Higgins
2018 Beren and Lúthien J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by  Christopher Tolkien [10]
2019 Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth Catherine McIlwaine [12]
2020 Tolkien's Library Oronzo Cilli [14]
2021 Unfinished Tales (40th anniversary edition) J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by  Christopher Tolkien [16]
2022 The Nature of Middle-earth J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by  Carl Hostetter [18]
2023 The Fall of Númenor J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by  Brian Sibley [20]
2024 The Letters of JRR Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by  Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien [20]

Online content

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Online content winners[3]
Year Site Ref.
2014 LOTR Project by Emil Johansson [1]
2015 TolkienBooks.net by Neil Holford
2016 The Journal of Tolkien Research by Bradford Lee Eden
2017 — none —
2018 Too Many Books and Never Enough by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
2019 TolkienGuide.com by Jeremy Edmonds [10]
2020 The Prancing Pony Podcast [12]
2021 Tolkien Experience Podcast [14]
2022 The Prancing Pony Podcast [16]
2023 Tolkien Gateway [18]
2024 Nerd of the Rings [20]

Outstanding contribution

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Outstanding contribution winners[3]
Year Recipient Ref.
2014 Christopher Tolkien [1]
2015 Tom Shippey
2016 Verlyn Flieger
2017 John Garth
2018 Priscilla Tolkien
2019 Catherine McIlwaine [10]
2020 Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull [12]
2021 Dimitra Fimi [14]
2022 Brian Sibley [16]
2023 John D. Rateliff [18]
2024 Charles E. Noad (posthumous) [20]

 References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Milos, Lily (April 21, 2014). "The Tolkien Society Announces Award Winners". Middle-earth News. Archived from the original on May 17, 2023. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  2. ^ "Announcing the inaugural Tolkien Society Awards". TheOneRing.net. April 2, 2014. Archived from the original on October 8, 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Awards". The Tolkien Society. October 29, 2016. Archived from the original on July 3, 2022. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  4. ^ Dolfen, Jenny (February 3, 2013). "Eärendil the Mariner". Jenny Dolfen Art. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  5. ^ Leone, Fabio (September 13, 2014). "Ulmo appears before Tuor". www.deviantart.com. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  6. ^ Hijo, Tomás. ""El poney pisador". Detalles. Disponible en la... - tomashijoart". Tomás Hijo Art. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  7. ^ Kukanova, Elena (September 8, 2016). "Maglor". www.deviantart.com. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  8. ^ Dolfen, Jenny (November 11, 2017). "The Hunt". Jenny Dolfen Art. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  9. ^ Nasmith, Ted (August 15, 2018). "Durin's Crown and the Mirrormere". Ted Nasmith. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  10. ^ a b c d e "Tolkien Society Awards 2019". Locus. May 17, 2019. Archived from the original on March 26, 2023. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  11. ^ Dolfen, Jenny (July 20, 2019). "T-shirt design for Tolkien2019 in Birmingham". Jenny Dolfen Art. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  12. ^ a b c d e "Tolkien Society Awards 2020". Locus. April 20, 2020. Archived from the original on January 29, 2023. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  13. ^ Nasmith, Ted (December 23, 2020). ""He Beheld a Vision of Gondolin Amid the Snow"". Ted Nasmith. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  14. ^ a b c d e "Tolkien Society Awards 2021". Locus. April 12, 2021. Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  15. ^ BricksCreations. "— at Minas Tirith". www.facebook.com. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  16. ^ a b c d e "2022 Tolkien Society Awards". Locus. April 8, 2022. Archived from the original on March 24, 2023. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  17. ^ Malyon, Serena. "The Party Tree". Serena Malyon. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  18. ^ a b c d e "2023 Tolkien Society Awards". Locus. April 3, 2023. Archived from the original on December 25, 2023. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  19. ^ Giancola, Donato. "Middle-earth". donatoarts.com. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  20. ^ a b c d e f "2024 Tolkien Society Awards". Locus Online. April 18, 2024. Archived from the original on April 18, 2024. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  21. ^ Garth, John. "Tolkien and the boy who didn't believe in fairies". johngarth.co.uk. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  22. ^ Flowers, Michael (June 9, 2014). "A Hemlock by any other name…". The Tolkien Society. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  23. ^ Garth, John (September 25, 2015). "Tolkien's 'immortal four' meet for the last time". John Garth. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  24. ^ Loconte, Joseph (June 30, 2016). "Opinion: How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front". The New York Times. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  25. ^ Fimi, Dimitra (November 21, 2017). "'Tears are the very wine of blessedness': joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings". In Helen, Daniel (ed.). Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016. Luna Press Publishing. ISBN 978-1-911143-33-8.
  26. ^ Fimi, Dimitra (December 6, 2018). "Was Tolkien really racist?". The Conversation. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  27. ^ Larsen, Kristine (2019). "Deconstructing Durin's Day: Science, Scientific Fan Fiction, and the Fan-Scholar". Journal of Tolkien Research. 8 (1). ISSN 2471-934X. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  28. ^ Flieger, Verlyn (2020). "Defying and Defining Darkness". Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society. Winter 2020 (61): 15–19. ISSN 0308-6674. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  29. ^ Moore, Clare (2021). "A Song of Greater Power: Tolkien's Construction of Lúthien Tinúviel". Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society. Winter 2021 (62): 6–16. ISSN 0308-6674.
  30. ^ Brown, Sara (2022). ""All that glisters is not gold": The Ring of Power and the Deception of Simile". Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society. Winter 2022 (63): 7–14. ISSN 0308-6674.
  31. ^ Brown, Sara (February 5, 2024). "The Tale of 'Aldarion and Erendis': Not Just a Medieval Love Story". Journal of Tolkien Research. 18 (1). ISSN 2471-934X. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
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