>... the un-Tolkien-like tweeness of JK Rowling's coinages ...
A comment on the quote, Bill, not your question.
It does seems a little unfair to JK. I do get a little bored with this kind of "tall poppy" criticism (so beloved by us Brits). I want to tell people "SHE WAS WRITING A BOOK FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN" the fact that a few grown ups cottoned on to it is by the by. My daughter read it at the age of seven when it first came out, as did most of her class. It's a very tricky book for a seven year old.
There are twee moments, it is a boarding school book, it is OK to have crumpets with Hagrid (hi AnnaS). It links back to Mallory Towers and The Chalet School all those books that were not necessarily of any great literary value but were read by children (not always with parental approval)in the distant past when I was a child.
