A classic. Great for all ages. It also gives you a good backing in the Fantasy genre considering many
writers still draw upon it today for ideas. J.R.R. will never be replicated. He spent half of his life studying language as a philologist. He also spent his later years working on the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was not an author, he was a world builder who immersed his reader in a totally different, realistic world of great eloquence.