The Trustees of The Tolkien Society are pleased to announce the shortlist for The Tolkien Society Awards 2022. Voting is open exclusively to members of the Society through the Members’ Area.

Shortlist

The shortlist for the Awards is as follows:

Best Artwork

• “Minas Tirith built from 110000 LEGO Bricks” build by BricksCreations, Stebrick; design by Stefano Mapelli
• “The Curious Fox” by Matěj Čadil
• “Across Arda” by Ralph Damiani
• “Forth Eorlingas!” by Jenny Dolfen
• “Smaug” by Anke Eissmann
• “Fire and Water” by Norloth

Best Article

• “The Red Book and Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: A Fantasic Uncertainty” by Vincent Ferré in Mallorn 62, winter 2021
• “The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’: Sexuality, Imagery, and Desire in Tolkien’s Works by Yvette Kisor (Tolkien Studies, vol. 18, 2021)
• “A Song of Greater Power: Tolkien’s Construction of Lúthien Tinúviel” by Clare Moore in Mallorn 62, winter 2021

Best Book

• The Gallant Edith Bratt, Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays
• The Nature of Middle-earth, ed. Carl Hostetter
• Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien (republished), ed. Christopher Tolkien
• Tolkien and the Classical World, ed. Hamish Williams

Best Online Content

• The Digital Tolkien Project (digitaltolkien.com)
• The Prancing Pony Podcast (theprancingponypodcast.com)
• The Roving Ranger Newsletter (tinyletter.com/TheTolkienist)
• The Tolkienist (thetolkienist.com)

Outstanding Contribution Award

The recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award 2022 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 8^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.