Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings has won the BBC’s Big Read poll for the UK’s most popular book. “The trilogy won 174,000 votes, 23% of the poll. The other main contender going into Saturday night was Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which won 135,000 votes. Philip Pullman’s metaphysical trilogy of children’s books, His Dark Materials, came third with 63,000.”