2024 Tolkien Society Awards Shortlist

Best Book

• The Letters of JRR Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition, Humphrey Carpenter & Christopher Tolkien, eds. (William Morrow)
• The Battle of Maldon, Peter Grybauskas, ed. (William Morrow)
• Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many, Thomas P. Hillman (Kent State University Press)

Best Article

• “The Tale of ‘Aldarion and Erendis’: Not Just a Medieval Love Story”, Sara Brown (Journal of Tolkien Research vol. 18 no. 1)
• “By the Waters of Anduin We Lay Down and Wept: Tolkien’s Akallabêth and the Prophetic Imagination”, Tom Emmanuel (Mallorn Winter ’23)
• Of houses and raiments – philosophical aspects of corporality in Arda”, Thomas Fornet-Ponse in (Journal of Tolkien Research vol. 16 no. 1)

Best Artwork

• “The Road Goes Ever On”, Matěj Čadil
• “Frodo’s Inheritance”, Donato Giancola
• “Ancalagon the Black vs Earendel Sky Battle”, GilestelsCanvas
• “From Minas Tirith To Hobbiton”, Jay Johnstone
• “Ent”, Francesco Simone Savi

Best Online Content

• A Long Expected Soundscape
• Digital Tolkien Project
• In Deep Geek
• Nerd of the Rings

Voting is open to Tolkien Society members until April 12, 2024. For more information, see the Tolkien Society website.

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