2024 Tolkien Society Awards
Winners of the Tolkien Society Awards 2024 were announced on April 13, 2024. 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 Letters of JRR Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition, eds. Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien
- Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many, Thomas P. Hillman
- The Battle of Maldon, ed. Peter Grybauskas
Best Article
- WINNER: “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 64, winter 2023)
- “Of houses and raiments – philosophical aspects of corporality in Arda”, Thomas Fornet-Ponse (Journal of Tolkien Research vol. 16 no. 1)
Best Artwork
- WINNER: “Frodo’s Inheritance”, Donato Giancola
- “Ancalagon the Black vs Earendel Sky Battle”, @gilestelscanvas
- “Ent”, Francesco Simone Savi
- “From Minas Tirith To Hobbiton”, Jay Johnstone
- “The Road Goes Ever On”, Matěj Čadil
Best Online Content
Outstanding Contribution Award
- Charles E. Noad
For more, see the Tolkien Society website.
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