Tolkien

I always ensure I have time to read a good book.

Personally my favourite is the Lord of the Rings but The Silmarillion and The Hobbit are also great, I've not got round to reading anything else by either JRR Tolkien or Christopher Tolkien but I intend to.

I do make a point of reading the Lord of the Rings at least once a year.

I could add tons of things if I were not so tired.... Seriously, I can tell you that Tolkien hated to see "The Lord of the Rings" referred to as a trilogy - it was a book divided in three parts, not a series as far too many people seem to think!

I'm in two minds as concerns Christopher T.'s work. Some of what he did has been very useful indeed to Tolkien scholars, but there is too much that just smacks of an easy way to make money out of his father's name and reputation. Actually, of all the books he edited after JRRT's death, my favourite is probably "Unfinished Tales" - "The Silmarillion" should've probably looked like that, if Chris hadn't intervened quite heavily in order to string the various parts together.

I love both LotR and "The Hobbit", which is a masterpiece in its own right. Tolkien's shorter fiction is also quite interesting (I'll be writing something on the subject in the next few months). However, the best piece of work  by Tolkien besides LotR and TH is the essay "On Fairy-Stories" - probably the best defense of non-realistic literature ever written.