Starting Over Again with the Ring

The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien): This year marked the start of a long-planned project...to read the books that once appeared in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series of the late 1960's and the early 1970's (plus a few volumes that were not officially part of the series, but associated with it and one series—the Deryini tales of Katherine Kurtz—that have continued long after the demise of the series). I'm not going to read them quite in the same pace as the original publications (sometimes four volumes came out in a month; I intend on reading some things other than fantasy!), but over the next few years I should make it through the series.

The first two books published (not officially part of the series, but predating it) in what is considered the "canon" of the series are The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien. I've read both (and the rest of the Ring trilogy) many times over. They get better each time.