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.[1] 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."
― 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.[3]

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