It’s time for the 10th annual Silmaril Awards! TEN YEARS. A decade of celebrating some of the most amazing characters in fantasy fiction.

This is your chance to nominate your favorite fantasy characters in several categories to see which ones will earn one of the beloved silmarils from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

Nominations will run from Sept 1-5.

You’ll vote on the top 5 nominees from each award from Sept 8-12.

The winners will be announced, one on each weekday over the two weeks running from Sept 15-25.

Finally, we will close out this year’s awards with a special online event on Sept 26. More on that below!

Two contests, ten times the chances to win

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of these awards this year we are doing something special. We’re running not one, but TWO contests.

The first contest will take place during voting week. The hosts for each award will be sharing snippets of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s poems and if you can piece them altogether, you’ll get entered into the contest 10 times!

The second contest will simply be a drawing from those who vote (and submit an email). But this one has a twist as well. Two names will be drawn to compete for the grand prize. But the winners will be determined by a Lord of the Rings trivia contest held by the hosts of the awards.

On September 26th, the hosts will meet online for the contest, with half of the hosts competing for one entrant and half for the other. Whoever’s team wins will walk away with the grand prize and the other entrant will receive the runner-up prize.

A treasure trove of prizes

Here is a list of some of the prizes you could win by participating in this year’s awards.

• Stained glass dragon sun catcher
• Painted gold “One Ring” bowl
• A Mines of Moria journal
• A 12×18 inch poster of the Fellowship of the Ring
• Three paperbacks by authors H.L. Burke, DJ Edwardson, J.L. Mbewe, and Jenelle Leanne Schmidt
• Three ebooks by those same authors
• A Lord of the Rings scarf with a map of Middle-earth imprinted on it
• A Leaf of Lorien pin
• A 3D printed Tree of Gondor bookmark
• A Gandalf Quote sticker
• Door of Moria sticker

See you at the nominations

It all begins on September 1st!

We hope you’ll join us for these awards and the contest and that it will be a celebration worthy of Bilbo’s hundred and eleventieth birthday party. May the best hobbit win!