The Trustees of The Tolkien Society are pleased to announce the shortlist for The Tolkien Society Awards. Members of the Society will be able to vote through the members’ area.

Shortlist

The shortlist for the Awards is as follows:

Best Artwork

• “Finrod Crossing the Helcaraxe” by WiseNailArt
• “Flight from Amon Hen” by Jay Johnstone
• “Maglor” by Elena Kukanova

Best Article

• “How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front” by Joseph Loconte
• “’The Lord of the Rings’ as Pastoral” by Adam Roberts
• “Tolkien and the aesthetics of philology” by Edmund Weiner

Best Book

• A Secret Vice, ed. Dimitra Fimi and Andy Higgins
• The Elvish Writing Systems of J.R.R. Tolkien, by Matthew D. Coombes
• The Hobbit Facsimile First Edition, by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, ed. Verlyn Flieger

Outstanding Contribution Award

• John Garth
• Hammond and Scull

In the Best Website category, the Trustees felt there was no clarity amongst the nominations, so have decided that there will be no award in this category this year.

Voting

Every member will be able to vote once in each category through the members’ area of this website. You have until Friday 8th April to vote.

About the Author: The Tolkien Society

The Tolkien Society is an educational charity and worldwide membership organisation devoted to promoting research into, and educating the public in, the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Society organises regular events (such as Oxonmoot and Tolkien Reading Day), publishes regular books and journal (such as Amon Hen and Mallorn), and is working towards a permanent home to Tolkien in the UK.