Tolkien Society Awards

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File:Eärendil the Mariner by Jenny Dolfen (detail).jpg
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]
2025 "Arrival in the Shire"[21] Ted Nasmith [22]

Best article

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Article winners[3]
Year Article Author Ref.
2014 "Tolkien and the boy who didn't believe in fairies"[23] John Garth [1]
2015 "A Hemlock by any other name…"[24] Michael Flowers
2016 "Tolkien's 'immortal four' meet for the last time"[25] John Garth
2017 "How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front",[26] 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",[27] in Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016 Dimitra Fimi
2019 "Was Tolkien really racist?"[28] in The Conversation, 6 December 2018 Dimitra Fimi [10]
2020 "Deconstructing Durin's Day: Science, Scientific Fan Fiction, and the Fan-Scholar"[29] in Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 8, no. 1 Kristine Larsen [12]
2021 "Defying and Defining Darkness"[30] in Mallorn 61 Verlyn Flieger [14]
2022 "A Song of Greater Power: Tolkien's Construction of Lúthien Tinúviel",[31] in Mallorn 62 Clare Moore [16]
2023 "All that glisters is not gold"[32] in Mallorn 63 Sara Brown [18]
2024 "The Tale of 'Aldarion and Erendis': Not Just a Medieval Love Story"[33] in Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 18, no. 1 Sara Brown [20]
2025 "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", J. R. R. Tolkien's 1953 W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture: An Updated Chronology and Related Findings,[34] in English Studies, vol. 105, no. 6 Andoni Cossio [22]

 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]
2025 The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull [22]

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]
2025 Digital Tolkien Project[35] [22]

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]
2025 Douglas A. Anderson [22]

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