Tolkien Society Awards

Annual award celebrating work relating to J. R. R. Tolkien

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

## External links

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Poetry
and songs|

* Songs for the Philologists (1936)
* "Bagme Bloma"
* The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953)
* "A Walking Song" (1954)
* The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)
* "Errantry"
* "Fastitocalon"
* "The Sea-Bell"
* "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late"
* The Road Goes Ever On (1967)
* Bilbo's Last Song (1974)
* List of Tolkien's alliterative verse

Fiction|

* The Hobbit (1937)
* "Leaf by Niggle" (1947)
* The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945)
* Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
* The Lord of the Rings:
* The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
* The Two Towers (1954)
* The Return of the King (1955)
* Tree and Leaf (1964)
* The Tolkien Reader (1966)
* Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Posthumous
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* The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
* The Silmarillion (1977)
* Unfinished Tales (1980)
* Mr. Bliss (1982)
* The History of Middle-earth (1983–1996)
* The Book of Lost Tales
* The Lays of Beleriand
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* The History of The Lord of the Rings
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* Roverandom (1998)
* The Children of Húrin (2007)
* The History of The Hobbit (2007)
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* The Fall of Arthur (2013)
* The Story of Kullervo (2015)
* Beren and Lúthien (2017)
* The Fall of Gondolin (2018)
* The Nature of Middle-earth (2021)
* The Fall of Númenor (2022)

Academic
works|

* Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925)
* "The Devil's Coach Horses" (1925)
* "Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" (1929)
* "Sigelwara Land" (1932–34)
* "Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale" (1934)
* "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936)
* "On Fairy-Stories" (1939)
* "On Translating Beowulf" (1940)
* Sir Orfeo (1944)
* Ancrene Wisse (1962)
* "English and Welsh" (1963)
* Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer, 1966)

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academic|

* Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (translations, 1975)
* Exodus (1981)
* Finn and Hengest (1982)
* The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (1983)
* Beowulf and the Critics (2002)
* Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary with "Sellic Spell" (2014)
* A Secret Vice (2016)

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