JKR and JRR

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 1204

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Bates" <spicoli323 at h...> 
wrote:
> "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

Well, in my opinion, you can't read the Lord of the Rings and not be 
influenced by it, especially if you read it at 14. Like Rowlings, it 
sinks deep into the imagination.

I'm puzzled that those who haven't read much fantasy are anti-
fantasy..it almost seems equivalent to those who haven't read Harry 
Potter slamming it for devil worship....

Susan