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

YearArtworkArtistRef.
2014"Eärendil the Mariner"
2015"Ulmo appears before Tuor"
2016
2017"Maglor"
2018
2019"Durin's Crown and the Mirrormere"
2020
2021"He Beheld a Vision of Gondolin Amid the Snow"
2022"Minas Tirith built from 110000 LEGO Bricks"STEBRICK, Stefano Mapelli, and BrickCreation
2023
2024"Frodo's Inheritance"
2025"Arrival in the Shire"

Best article

YearArticleAuthorRef.
2014"Tolkien and the boy who didn't believe in fairies"
2015
2016"Tolkien's 'immortal four' meet for the last time"
2017"How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front", in The New York Times, 30 June 2016
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
2019"Was Tolkien really racist?" in The Conversation, 6 December 2018
2020"Deconstructing Durin's Day: Science, Scientific Fan Fiction, and the Fan-Scholar" in Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 8, no. 1
2021"Defying and Defining Darkness" in Mallorn 61
2022, in Mallorn 62
2023"All that glisters is not gold" in Mallorn 63
2024 in Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 18, no. 1
2025"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", J. R. R. Tolkien's 1953 W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture: An Updated Chronology and Related Findings, in English Studies, vol. 105, no. 6

Best book

YearBookAuthorRef.
2014Middle-Earth Envisioned  and Brian Robb
2014 , edited by  Christopher Tolkien
2015Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, edited by  Christopher Tolkien
2016 and Christina Scull
2017, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andy Higgins
2018Beren and Lúthien, edited by  Christopher Tolkien
2019Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
2020Tolkien's Library
2021Unfinished Tales , edited by Christopher Tolkien
2022, edited by Carl Hostetter
2023, edited by Brian Sibley
2024, edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien
2025, edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

Online content

YearSiteRef.
2014LOTR Project by Emil Johansson
2015TolkienBooks.net by Neil Holford
2016 by Bradford Lee Eden
2017none
2018Too Many Books and Never Enough by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
2019TolkienGuide.com by Jeremy Edmonds
2020
2021Tolkien Experience Podcast
2022
2023Tolkien Gateway
2024Nerd of the Rings
2025Digital Tolkien Project

Outstanding contribution

YearRecipientRef.
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020 and Christina Scull
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025