One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology

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One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology
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AuthorAnne C. Petty
PublisherAlabama: The University of Alabama Press
Released1979
FormatHardcover (22 × 14.5 cm)
Pages122
ISBN0-8173-7328-4

One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology is a study of the folkloristic and mythic structure of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, applying the theories of scholars Joseph Campbell, Vladimir Propp, amd Claude Lévi-Strauss. The book was based on Anne C. Petty's Ph.D. thesis: The Creative Mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Study of the Mythic Impulse (Florida State University, 1972; iii, 144 leaves).

Revised edition

2002 edition

In 2002, a revised edition was published, including a new introduction (pp. [xi]-xxi) and an updated bibliography (pp. [118]-121).

  • 2002: One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology. Alabama: University of Alabama Press, [September] 2002. xxi, 124 pp. 21.5 × 14 cm. ISBN 0-8173-1205-6 (pbk): $18.95.