How 'Harry Potter' and 'The Rings' measure up

Harry Potter		Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997	Publication date	Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
More than 116 million copies of all four books in the USA, 20 million of which are The Sorcerer's Stone.	Books in print	100 million copies of the trilogy have sold worldwide since first published. A one-volume edition of the paperback movie tie-in has 1.2 million copies in print and has sold 10 times more than the previous version.
Four, with three more scheduled	Number of volumes in series	Three
9 to 12	Recommended reading age	12 and up
Sorcerer's Stone, 309 pp.	Number of pages in hardcover edition	Fellowship of the Ring, 423 pp.
Most successful children's book series in history	Literary accomplishment	Ranked No. 1 (Gone With the Wind was No. 2) in an Amazon .com reader's poll of best books of the millennium
$125 million	Budget of movie	$90 million ($270 million for the trilogy)
PG for some scary moments and mild language	Rating	PG-13 for epic battle sequences and some scary images
Seven	Number of movies to be made	Three
A stuffed Hedwig owl, about $16	Neat product tie-in	Burger King glass goblets with etchings that glow red, $1.99 each with Value Meal
2 hours, 33 minutes	Length of movie	2 hours, 50 minutes
750 shots	Number of effects	About 500
Time is contemporary, the setting is the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in England	Setting	The Third Age of Middle-earth
Harry Potter, 11, an orphan with wizardly powers who wears thick glasses and bears a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead	Our hero	Frodo Baggins, 50 (young for a hobbit), who is short of stature (3-foot-6 or so), hairy of foot and adventurous of spirit
He can fly on a broomstick and also has a "parseltongue" that allows him to speak to snakes	Magic powers	The ring makes Frodo invisible and gives him special vision
An invisibility cloak	Handy accessory	Sting, a sword that glows blue when evil is near; a protective chainmail shirt made of mithril
Lord Voldemort (or He Who Must Not be Named), the evil wizard who killed Harry's parents	Main foe	Saruman, a wizard corrupted by Sauron the Dark Lord
Lively sidekick Ron Weasley and bossy overachiever Hermione Granger	Friends	Loyal Sam, impetuous Pippin and fun-loving Merry
The rotund, good-hearted Rubeus Hagrid and wise Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore	Mentor	Bilbo, Frodo's uncle who leaves him the ring, and Gandalf the wizard
To find the Sorcerer's Stone, provider of eternal life	Quest	To destroy the ring in the fires of Mount Doom
Fluffy, the three-headed dog	Most unusual creature	The Balrog, a 40-foot-tall winged demon whose skin emits fire and smoke
School bathroom	Locale of troll attack	The Mines of Moria
Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane	Notable British cast members	Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee

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