# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-e-blackwelder
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:56:21.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-e-blackwelder"
name: "Richard E. Blackwelder"
slug: "richard-e-blackwelder"
description: "Richard Eliot Blackwelder was an American biologist, professor and author specializing in entomology and taxonomy. After a distinguished professional career, he retired in 1977, and in 1978 he discovered the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, which were to be the focus of his energies for the remainder of his life. Over the next twenty years, Blackwelder amassed a large collection of Tolkien-related books and other materials, which he sorted and indexed. The Blackwelder Collection, donated to Marquette University in 1982, is believed to be the largest single body of secondary sources on Tolkien ever to be developed."
tagline: "American biologist, professor, author (1909–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Richard_Eliot_Blackwelder.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-01-29"
deathDate: "2001-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.34
  momentum:             1.206896551724138
  historical:           4.80234
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Blackwelder"
    title: "Richard E. Blackwelder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Blackwelder"
    title: "Richard E. Blackwelder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BB%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Блэквелдер, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Eliot_Blackwelder"
    title: "Richard Eliot Blackwelder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Eliot_Blackwelder"
    title: "Richard Eliot Blackwelder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7325351"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump