[PW] ? Number of words in Harry Potter and Tolkien

[JTT]

>I'm giving a talk tomorrow to a group of high school students and 
>wanted to know the total number of words in all seven Harry Potter 
>novels, and the total number of words in either all of Tolkien or at 
>least Lord of the Rings. Does anyone either know or know of a 
>source? Thanks. - Jeff

You might find this helpful:

http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/harrypotterplus/fr/pottersaurus.htm

and this website

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,458345,00.html

has some statistics. Found 'em through googling 'total number of 
words in all the harry potter books' (no quotes).