Greetings friends and fans of fantasy! Unfortunately, our regular host for the Silver Tongue award was unable to present the award in proper Silmaril fashion, but we still need to publish the winners of course!

And so…

No fancy poems

No great to-dos

Here is the winner

Who did not lose

2026 Silver Tongue Award

Our winner this year is…Curdie from George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin. So wonderful to see him finally win this award!

In a tight vote he won with 30.11%.

2nd place went to Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle with 27.86%

3rd place went to Athelas from the City Between Series with 25.81%

4th place went to Moist Von Lipwig from Discworld with 8.6%

5th place went to Luck from Spindle with 7.53%

A Middle-earth-sized Thank you! to everyone who voted. Be sure to come back during the rest of the week for the rest of the awards, which we hope will be given on their regular host sites!