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
| Year | Artwork | Artist | Ref. |
| 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
| Year | Article | Author | Ref. |
| 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
| Year | Book | Author | Ref. |
| 2014 | Middle-Earth Envisioned | and Brian Robb | |
| 2014 | , edited by Christopher Tolkien | ||
| 2015 | Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary | , edited by Christopher Tolkien | |
| 2016 | and Christina Scull | ||
| 2017 | , edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andy Higgins | ||
| 2018 | Beren and Lúthien | , edited by Christopher Tolkien | |
| 2019 | Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth | ||
| 2020 | Tolkien's Library | ||
| 2021 | Unfinished 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
| Year | Site | Ref. |
| 2014 | LOTR Project by Emil Johansson | |
| 2015 | TolkienBooks.net by Neil Holford | |
| 2016 | 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 | ||
| 2021 | Tolkien Experience Podcast | |
| 2022 | ||
| 2023 | Tolkien Gateway | |
| 2024 | Nerd of the Rings | |
| 2025 | Digital Tolkien Project |
Outstanding contribution
| Year | Recipient | Ref. |
| 2014 | ||
| 2015 | ||
| 2016 | ||
| 2017 | ||
| 2018 | ||
| 2019 | ||
| 2020 | and Christina Scull | |
| 2021 | ||
| 2022 | ||
| 2023 | ||
| 2024 | ||
| 2025 |