[kiryandil]

LOTR, the Dune series and the Narnia series are ALL classics.

I write this opinion as a premium consumer of literature.

99th percentile, FWIW. I read Mitchell's Gone With The Wind upwards of thirty times because of her superlative writing.

[BradyLS]

LOTR, Narnia, and DUNE (up through Children of Dune, sorry) are all marvels of writing.

Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin books are also on that shelf.