JKR and JRR

[Steve Bates]

No: HPFGUIDX 1190

"I don't really like fantasy. It's not so much that I don't like it, 
I haven't really read a lot of it. I have read Lord of the Rings, 
though. I read that when I was about 14. I didn't read The Hobbit 
until I was in my 20s--much later. I'd started Harry Potter by then, 
and someone gave it to me, and I thought, Yeah, I really should read 
this, because people kept saying, 'You've read The Hobbit, 
obviously?' And I was saying, 'Um, no.' So I thought, Well, I will, 
and I did, and it was wonderful. [Sheepish smile]"


J.K. Rowling
quoted from an interview in Newsweek, July 10, 2000