2023 Tolkien Society Awards

Winners of the Tolkien Society Awards 2023 were announced on April 1, 2023. The awards “recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom, highlight­ing our long-standing charitable objective to ‘seek to educate the public in, and promote research into, the life and works of'” J.R.R. Tolkien. The society’s trustees choose the shortlist, with winners chosen by the membership.

Best Book

• WINNER: The Fall of Númenor, Brian Sibley, ed. (William Morrow)

• J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript, Bill Fliss, et al. (Haggerty Museum of Art)
• Twenty-First Century Tolkien, Nick Groom (Pegasus Books)
• The Great Tales Never End, Richard Ovenden &Catherine McIlwaine, eds. (Bodleian Library)

Best Article

• WINNER: “All that glisters is not gold”, Sara Brown (Mallorn Winter ’22)

• “Legal Precedent and Noldorin History: Míriel’s Weaving”, Cami Agan (Loremasters and Libraries in Fantasy and Science Fiction)
• “How J.R.R. Tolkien Came to Write the Stories of ‘The Rings of Power’”. John Garth (Smithsonian 8/22)
• “Shadows of Middle-earth: Tolkien in Subculture, Counterculture and Exploitation”, Monica Sanz (Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien)