# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:29:34.304Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-foster"
name: "Robert Foster"
slug: "robert-foster"
description: "The Complete Guide to Middle-earth: from The Hobbit to The Silmarillion is a reference book for J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, compiled and edited by Robert Foster. It was first published in 1971 under the title A Guide to Middle-earth. A revised and enlarged edition under the title The Complete Guide to Middle-earth was published in 1978. It received a third edition in 2001."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Complete_Guide_to_Middle-earth_Hildebrandt.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.81
  momentum:             0.1333333333333333
  historical:           5.669402666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Foster_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Robert Foster (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "روبرت فوستر (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1_(%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "روبرت فوستر (استاذ جامعة من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Foster_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Robert Foster (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Foster_(author)"
    title: "Robert Foster (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Foster"
    title: "Robert Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93906"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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