# Tolkien Society Awards

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.

## Recipients
### Best artwork

Artwork winners :
| Year | Artwork | Artist |
| 2014 | "Eärendil the Mariner" | Jenny Dolfen |
| 2015 | "Ulmo appears before Tuor" | Fabio Leone |
| 2016 | "The Prancing Pony" | Tomás Hijo |
| 2017 | "Maglor" | Elena Kukanova |
| 2018 | "The Hunt" | Jenny Dolfen |
| 2019 | "Durin's Crown and the Mirrormere" | Ted Nasmith |
| 2020 | "The Professor" | Jenny Dolfen |
| 2021 | "He Beheld a Vision of Gondolin Amid the Snow" | Ted Nasmith |
| 2022 | "Minas Tirith built from 110000 LEGO Bricks" | STEBRICK (model), Stefano Mapelli (design), and BrickCreation (assembly) |
| 2023 | "The Party Tree" | Serena Malyon |
| 2024 | "Frodo's Inheritance" | Donato Giancola |

### Best article

Article winners :
| Year | Article | Author |
| 2014 | "Tolkien and the boy who didn't believe in fairies" | John Garth |
| 2015 | "A Hemlock by any other name…" | Michael Flowers |
| 2016 | "Tolkien's 'immortal four' meet for the last time" | John Garth |
| 2017 | "How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front", 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", in Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016 | Dimitra Fimi |
| 2019 | "Was Tolkien really racist?" in The Conversation, 6 December 2018 | Dimitra Fimi |
| 2020 | "Deconstructing Durin's Day: Science, Scientific Fan Fiction, and the Fan-Scholar" in Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 8, no. 1 | Kristine Larsen |
| 2021 | "Defying and Defining Darkness” in Mallorn 61 | Verlyn Flieger |
| 2022 | "A Song of Greater Power: Tolkien's Construction of Lúthien Tinúviel”, in Mallorn 62 | Clare Moore |
| 2023 | "All that glisters is not gold” in Mallorn 63 | Sara Brown |
| 2024 | "The Tale of 'Aldarion and Erendis': Not Just a Medieval Love Story” in Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 18, no. 1 | Sara Brown |

### Best book

Book winners :
| Year | Book | Author(s) |
| 2014 | Middle-Earth Envisioned ("Best Book") | Paul Simpson and Brian Robb |
| 2014 | 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 |
| 2019 | Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth | Catherine McIlwaine |
| 2020 | Tolkien's Library | Oronzo Cilli |
| 2021 | Unfinished Tales (40th anniversary edition) | J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien |
| 2022 | The Nature of Middle-earth | J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Carl Hostetter |
| 2023 | The Fall of Númenor | J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Brian Sibley |
| 2024 | The Letters of JRR Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition | J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien |

### Online content

Online content winners :
| Year | Site |
| 2014 | LOTR Project by Emil Johansson |
| 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 |
| 2020 | The Prancing Pony Podcast |
| 2021 | Tolkien Experience Podcast |
| 2022 | The Prancing Pony Podcast |
| 2023 | Tolkien Gateway |
| 2024 | Nerd of the Rings |

### Outstanding contribution

Outstanding contribution winners :
| Year | Recipient |
| 2014 | Christopher Tolkien |
| 2015 | Tom Shippey |
| 2016 | Verlyn Flieger |
| 2017 | John Garth |
| 2018 | Priscilla Tolkien |
| 2019 | Catherine McIlwaine |
| 2020 | Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull |
| 2021 | Dimitra Fimi |
| 2022 | Brian Sibley |
| 2023 | John D. Rateliff |
| 2024 | Charles E. Noad (posthumous) |