We are pleased to announce the winners of The Tolkien Society Awards 2024.

The Tolkien Society Awards recognise 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 Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE”.

Tolkien Society members were invited to vote on shortlists prepared by the Trustees, which was based on nominations submitted by members of the public.

Congratulations to all winners!

The Tolkien Society Awards 2024

Best Artwork

• WINNER: “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
• WINNER: “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
• WINNER: 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)
• WINNER: Nerd of the Rings (youtube.com/@NerdoftheRings)

Outstanding Contribution Award

Charles E. Noad

About the Author: Daniel Helen

Daniel is an Officer without Portfolio and Trustee of The Tolkien Society. Elected in 2014, he is mainly responsible for the Society's digital operations, including this website.