I was recommend this series when I was a freshman in high school, and I remember picking up the first in the series "The Hobbit" where there is this well crafted world that I get dropped into. (Map included!) This long adventure story starts off with the Great Gandalf, a wizard that always has an adventure following close by. Gandalf visits a friend Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit. Which hobbits are not ones to go on adventure, they like to stay in and smoke their pipes and live in their hobbit-holes, completely content. But Gandalf talks him into taking on a journey with him and they go off through Tolkien's invented lands of forests and run into many dangers with great reward.
The great thing I love about Tolkien's writings is the way he lays things out in the beginning. He doesn't go into great detail of items or appearances, just enough to get the ball rolling.
Like when he's describing Gandalf, he mentions him wearing a grey hat. Nothing special, but it gets the image instilled in your head and you move on to the adventure ahead. Also another great thing about his writing, especially The Hobbit, in the first chapter especially, he talks to you and narrates it like a bed time story. Telling you as he remembers it, mentioning things, but never truly going into it unless it's essential to tell the epic journey.
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