So, today I went in and looked up who else had won the Outstanding Contributions award and found I'm in v. good company. Here's the year-by-year list, extracted from the Tolkien Gateway website:*
2014 Christopher Tolkien
2015 Tom Shippey
2016 Verlyn Flieger
2017 John Garth
2018 Priscilla Tolkien
2019 Catherine McIlwaine
2020 Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull
2021 Dimitra Fimi
2020 Brian Sibley
--I call rhat good company indeed.
--John R.
--just finished: ALWAYS COMING HOME (even the accompanying cassette)**
--in the early stages: KHALED by F. Marion Crawford
* https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Tolkien_Society_Awards
**Yes, we still own, and play, cassette players --in the plural.
Yes, you are in very good company. But the other recipients are also in very good company now that you have joined them.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! This is a well deserved honor for one of the best Tolkien scholars I know. :-)
Second that comment! Again, well deserved!
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