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Martin, Martin, and Martin. But, as I couldn't choose the same one thrice, I went with Martin, then Tolkien. Out of the other ones there that I've read, I'm not too fond of any of them. Salvatore is entertaining, but any FR novelist has trouble overcoming my dislike of the Monty Haul setting where you trip over magic artifacts every 5 steps. Eddings did fine in Pawn of Prophecy, but the Belgariad as a whole was mediocre, and the Mallorean was more of the same, with the Elenium and Talmuli also being quite similar -- in fact, he got famous by writing the same story 4 times.
Had Chaucer or Chretien de Troys or even the "unknown" Beowulf been on the list, I would have had a third vote. Oh well.
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