The Trolls & Legendes Festival, in Mons, Belgium, has given their Le'Fantastique Lifetime Achievement Award to Stan Nicholls, for Contributions to Literature, and to Alan Lee, for Contributions to the Visual Arts. The award is commonly known as "the Troll."

Nicholls is the author, most recently, of the "Dreamtime" trilogy: The Covenant Rising, The Righteous Blade, and The Diamond Isle. Alan Lee has painted hundreds of covers for books over the past thirty-some years, has worked as a conceptual artist on many films (most famously, Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy), is the co-author of the classic Fairies, and most recently is the author of The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook.

[via UK SF Book News]