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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to” (LotR LRC §1.03.075).

Without a doubt, the passion and love for Fantastic Literature are equally dangerous. You start reading a story, a novel, and in the blink of an eye, you are traveling to the Undying Lands discovering impossible worlds, extraordinary people, and living a thousand lives at the turn of each page: that is the power of Fantastic Literature. Fantasy is born from the collection of pre literary stories, verses, and narratives. Numerous canonical works of Fantasy from Europe collect and creatively transform the legacy of the foundational myths and stories of that continent: J.R.R. Tolkien and his mythopoetic creation of Arda (and, in particular, of Middle-earth) is an attempt to give England a solid mythology.…