Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (Inklings Studies)

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The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and/or Charles Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the previous three years are eligible, including finalists for previous years.

2011 

Planet Narnia by Michael Ward

2010

Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi

2009

The History of the Hobbit by John Rateliff, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end

2008

Diana Pavlac Glyer; appendix by David Bratman, The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community (Kent State University Press, 2007)

2007

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

2006

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

2005

War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft

2004

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth

2003

Beowulf and the Critics by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Michael D.C. Drout

2002

Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter

2001

J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey

2000

Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond

1999

C.S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper

1998

A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by Verlyn Flieger

1997

The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams ed. by Charles A. Huttar and Peter Schakel

1996

J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

1995

C.S. Lewis in Context by Doris T. Myers

1994

J.R.R. Tolkien, A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond with the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson

1993

Planets in Peril by David C. Downing

1992

Word and Story in C.S. Lewis edited by Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar

1991

Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times by George Sayer

199

0 The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson

1989

The Return of the Shadow by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien

1988

C.S. Lewis by Joe R. Christopher

1987

J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality and Religion by Richard Purtill

1986

Charles Williams, Poet of Theology by Glen Cavaliero

1985

Reason and Imagination in C.S. Lewis by Peter J. Schakel

1984

The Road to Middle-earth by T.A. Shippey

1983

Companion to Narnia by Paul F. Ford

1982

The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter

1976

Tolkien Criticism by Richard C. West; C.S. Lewis, An Annotated Checklist by Joe R. Christopher and Joan K. Ostling; Charles W.S. Williams, A Checklist by Lois Glenn

1975

C.S. Lewis: A Biography by Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper

1974

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christian by Kathryn Lindskoog

1973

Master of Middle-earth by Paul H. Kocher

1972

Walter Hooper

1971

C.S. Kilby; Mary McDermott Shideler