1. Choose one of the passages of any of chapters 1 through 6 of The Lord of the Rings and discuss the way in which it appeals to fantasy and imagination. First it is convenient to specify the meaning of some adjectives: supernatural, something that surpasses natural laws, such as that a dead person is resurrected; anything whose explanation we do not know, as is for most people the TV remote control, something that amazes us and of which we admire, starting with a landscape; fantastic, something created by the imagination that may or may not amaze or be mysterious, for example, a magic wand, a qualifier that commutes with any of the above, at least in colloquial language. Anything supernatural can be marvelous and is always mysterious and has a real consistency that the fantastic does not have. That is, the marvelous and the mysterious depend on the observer and are somewhat subjective, the fantastic and the supernatural in themselves have nothing subjective. After all, after Harry Potter's triumph, his relationship with Voldemort was his mother's love: beloved Dumbledore told him that even when the one who loved us was gone, he left us protected forever. This appeal works because many of us have no problem communicating the magical power of motherhood. But in the very special cases where something unexplainable happened because it was almost supernatural or supernatural, just mentioning what happened was enough without too much embellishment. Whether the reader believes it or not depends on the author's talent, but it is better if the author skips detailed explanations because they do not exist, and he does not have enough of them. It is not that the text cannot include super specific allegories, as is always done for didactic reasons, as it is sometimes necessary, but when we do so we are out of real literature. In this area, some of us believe that the wisdom and freedom of the reader should be respected, so we ask the author not to try to impose his own choices or stereotypes, even all good choices. Besides thinking that the difficulty of going beyond that is insurmountable, I like to keep some things ironic, especially my own. If someone still doesn't believe in Harry Potter because of the many strange interpretations of the content it has, it's best to consider that the cause of the misunderstanding is not necessarily the story or who told it, it could also be because of who listens or reads it.