[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwart's Motto, help!

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 21245

Stephanie Roark Keener wrote:

> Also, "Never tickle a sleeping dragon" is JKR's homage to Tolkien.
> Bilbo Baggins claims to have coined the phrase at the end of _The
> Hobbit_.

However (and I'm doing here what I was fussing at all of you about,
sorry), hasn't JKR said that she has never read Tolkien? Nor am I
certain that's exactly what Bilbo said.

--Amanda


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