The following appears at Tolkien Society Website
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In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent "counter-culture" largely because of his concern with environmental issues. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone's, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK's leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century.
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The same site also states that Tolkien was mostly rejected by the “Eng. lit.” establishment.
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I prefer Gillaume d’Férny, connoisseur of fine fruit.
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