They were in negotiation with J.K. Rowling and New Line Cinema for the rights to Harry Potter and The Lord of The Rings, respectively.
In 2001, Rowling published an edition of the "textbook" to be sold to raise money for the British charity Comic Relief.Joanne Rowling is one of the most famous modern British authors. Her series of fantasy books about Harry Potter brought her fame and made millions of people happy. All “Harry Potter” books were adapted into films that had a great success.After graduating from the University. She continued writing the first book about Harry Potter when she moved to Portugal to work as a teacher of English. The “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was finished in Edinburgh but nobody wanted to publish it at first.Several months later the rights to her book were bought by a US publishing house that gave her a great amount of money so that she could continue writing. Since then J.K.Rowling wrote 7 books about Harry Potter and several novels connected to a magical world: “The tales of Beedle the Bard”, “Fantastic beasts and where to find them”, “Quidditch through the Ages”.
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Joan Rowling is a British author best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. Joan Rowling was born on July 31, 1965, in Yate. As a child, Joan often wrote fantasy stories, which she usually then read to her sister. In 2001, already J.K. Rowling won the Hugo Award for the book "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Joan is actively involved in charity work. In particular, she supports the Foundation for Single Parents and the Multiple Sclerosis Research Foundation, a disease from which her mother died, which of course is very difficult to talk about.