One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology

One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology is the first book on J.R.R. Tolkien and his legendarium by Anne C. Petty, in which she examines Tolkien's world through the methodologies of writers Vladimir Propp and Joseph Campbell and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. There is much discussion of Tolkien's uses of archetype.
It was first published in 1979, and then revised and re-released in 2002 following the success of The Fellowship of the Ring film.
The book had grown from Petty's doctoral thesis at Florida State University, The Creative Mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Study of the Mythic Impulse.
Its title refers to the One Ring, and its inscription.
== External links ==
* Goodreads page
* Amazon.com
== See also ==
* Secondary literature
* Tolkien in the Land of Heroes
* Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good
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