William Cater

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William "Bill" Cater is a British journalist who interviewed J.R.R. Tolkien on 2 August 1966 for the Daily Express. Cater later became a friend of Tolkien ' and they exchanged several letters. In 1977, Cater made an interview with Christopher Tolkien, concerning the publication of The Silmarillion.

In a 1972 article celebrating Tolkien's upcoming 80th birthday, Cater coined a famous expression which was to be used on the dustwrappers of an edition of The Lord of the Rings:

"The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and those who are going to read them."

― William Cater, The Sunday Times (UK)

He presented a paper called "Interviewing Tolkien" at the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference in 1992, but it was not submitted for later publication in the conference's proceedings.

Bibliography

Articles

• 1966: Daily Express, 22 November
  • "Lord of the Hobbits" (p.10)
• 1972: The Sunday Times Magazine, January 2
  • "The Lord of the Legends"
• 1977: Sunday Times Magazine, 25 September
  • "The filial duty of Christopher Tolkien" (pp. 61, 63. Photo of Christopher Tolkien on p. 61.)
• 1978: The Tolkien Scrapbook
  • "The Filial Duty of Christopher Tolkien"
• 2001: Telegraph, December 4
  • "We Talked of Love, Death and Fairy Tales"

See also

• Letter 322
• Letter 330
• Letter 331