Anne C. Petty

Anne C. Petty, Ph.D. (May 21, 1945 - July 21, 2013https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/thewakullanews/name/dr-anne-petty-obituary?id=9272412) was an American writer and scholar who engaged in comparative mythology, the humanities, and Tolkien studies.
She authored two substantial works on J.R.R. Tolkien's writing style and Middle-earth legendarium: Tolkien in the Land of Heroes (2004) and One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology (1979). The latter had been Petty's dissertation in her doctoral studies in English at Florida State University. She has written a number of published articles on Tolkien, as well as other subjects, and wrote four published fictional stories of her own.
She resided in Florida, U.S.A., and was regarded a friend of TheOneRing.net.
==Books & articles on Tolkien==
*One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology (1979)
*Tolkien in the Land of Heroes: Discovering the Human Spirit (2003)
*Dragons of Fantasy: The Scaly Villains & Heroes of Tolkien, Rowling, McCaffrey, Pratchett & Other Fantasy Greats! (2004)
*"Tolkien's Prelude (The Hobbit)" in J.R.R. Tolkien (Modern Critical Views) (2000)
*"Identifying England's Lönnrot" in Tolkien Studies, Vol. 1 (2004)
*Entries "Allegory", "Finland: Literary Sources", "Folklore", and "On Translating Beowulf" in Michael D. C. Drout's J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (2006)
*"Shakespearean Catharsis in J.R.R. Tolkien's Fiction" in Janet Brennan Croft's Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language (2007)
*"J.R.R. Tolkien's Dragons: The Evolution of Glaurung and Smaug" in Thomas Honegger and Fanfan Chen's Good Dragons are Rare – An Inquiry into Literary Dragons East and West (2009)
*"Reflections of Christendom in the Mythopoeic Iconography of Middle-Earth" in Paul Kerry and Sandra Miesel's Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work (2011)
==External links==
*Anne C. Petty's Amazon page
*ISFDb page
*Article remembering Anne C. Petty at TheOneRing.net
==References==
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