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William "Bill" Cater (1924 - 2020)[1] was a British journalist who interviewed J.R.R. Tolkien on 2 August 1966 for the Daily Express.[2] Cater later became a friend of Tolkien '[former link] 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.
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.[4]
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
See also
References
- ↑ Jill Rawlins, Former Sunday Times Magazine assistant editor Bill Cater dies at 95, PressGazette, 6 May 2020, updated 30 September 2022.
- ↑ Hammond, Wayne G. and Scull, Christina, The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology, p. 671
- ↑ Tolkien - the most unmanageable man (January 11, 2008) at Lotrplaza.com, as of July 28, 2010
- ↑ Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, p. 6