The Trustees of The Tolkien Society are pleased to announce the shortlist for The Tolkien Society Awards 2024. Voting is open exclusively to members of the Society through the Members’ Area.

Shortlist

The shortlist for the Awards is as follows:

Best Artwork

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

Best Article

• “By the Waters of Anduin We Lay Down and Wept: Tolkien’s Akallabêth and the Prophetic Imagination” by Tom Emmanuel in Mallorn 64, winter 2023
• “Of houses and raiments – philosophical aspects of corporality in Arda” by Thomas Fornet-Ponse in Journal of Tolkien Research vol. 16 no. 1
• “The Tale of ‘Aldarion and Erendis’: Not Just a Medieval Love Story” by Sara Brown in Journal of Tolkien Research vol. 18 no. 1

Best Book

• Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many, Thomas P. Hillman
• The Battle of Maldon, ed. Peter Grybauskas
• The Letters of JRR Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition, eds. Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien

Best Online Content

• A Long Expected Soundscape (jordanrannells.com)
• Digital Tolkien Project (digitaltolkien.com)
• In Deep Geek (youtube.com/@InDeepGeek)
• Nerd of the Rings (youtube.com/@NerdoftheRings)

Outstanding Contribution Award

The recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award 2024 has been selected by the Trustees and will be announced in due course.

Voting

Every member will be able to vote once in each category via the Members’ Area of this website.

You have until midnight on Friday 12^th April to vote.

If you’re not a member but would like to take part, join the Society now.

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.