Lord of the Rings? Lord of the Awards! (WIP)

This is the blog post for the project I had mentioned in my August 5 post (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) - It is meant as a depository for the awards The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien has garnered over the decades. I am yet undecided whether I should also include The Hobbit, The Silmarillion,  and/or other publications by Tolkien but let us see how things go. [I  also have to consider how to best present the material - in a database,  for example?]

The idea is to provide you with a chronological list of the awards, the reasoning for the positioning of The Lord of the Rings, and the public reactions to it. Everyone with a love for fantasy and the fantastic has experienced that his/her/their favourite books were ridiculed or even openly derided for being "children's books", "unrealistic", "not worth reading" etc. etc.

However, I do believe the number of awards and the type of awards the single most successful novel of the 20th century has garnered particularly in the last twenty years has shown a massive shift in perception. I am in no position to question or promote the validity of literary awards but I think a lot of people would agree that the Nobel Prize for Literature does carry quite a weight, just to give you an example.

So, without further ado, the list - I'll start you off (for now) with two of the best well-known polls.