On my upcoming survey, I will ask respondents to rate all the books that are options here as either "Excellent", "Good", "Okay", "Bad", or "Haven't read". This will only include submissions that I can verify are actually books.
Each book will get a score based on the total number of points from each response. A rating of "Excellent" counts as 2 points, "Good" counts as 1, "Bad" counts as -1, and the other two options count as 0. The book that gets the highest total score wins. If multiple books are tied for the best score, this will resolve to all of them equally.
See Plasma's Manifold Survey for other questions about the survey.
Edit: The survey is officially out! You can take it here: https://forms.gle/xZqWVxuY5irgLigu9
That also means new responses to this market won't be considered.
@JosephNoonan it actually was one book!
The book is not of course a 'trilogy'. That and the titles of the volumes was a fudge thought necessary for publication, owing to length and cost. There is no real division into 3, nor is any one pan intelligible alone. The story was conceived and written as a whole and the only natural divisions are the 'books' I-VI (which originally had titles).
Source- J.R.R Tolkien
@firstuserhere Yeah, I know he meant it as one book, but given that it was published as a trilogy originally, it's generally considered one.