V.E. Schwab, 'In Search of Doors,' Tolkien Lecture 2018

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Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature

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The sixth annual J.R.R Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature. Pembroke College, Oxford, 1st May 2018. tolkienlecture.org
Victoria “V.E.” Schwab is the #1 NYT, USA, and Indie bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including Vicious, the Shades of Magic series, and This Savage Song. Her work has received critical acclaim, been featured by EW and The New York Times, been translated into more than a dozen languages, and been optioned for TV and Film. The Independent calls her the “natural successor to Diana Wynne Jones” and touts her “enviable, almost Gaimanesque ability to switch between styles, genres, and tones.” Website: www.veschwab.com
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The Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature was established in 2013 at Pembroke College, Oxford, where J.R.R. Tolkien worked for twenty years as professor of Anglo-Saxon. Speakers in the series are given freedom to discuss any aspect of fantasy literature, broadly defined. Our aim is to honour J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy by promoting, and contributing to, the study of fantasy.
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@linkinsmommy7908 6 жыл бұрын

She's one of my top 3 favorite authors. I absolutely love everything she's ever written.

@sheyslibrary 4 жыл бұрын

Two years later and Addie LaRue is about to be published. It makes me so happy to know she felt ready to write Addie. I’m so excited to read it!!

@billyalarie929 4 жыл бұрын

There's an excerpt she read from, now 3 months on. Her prose is absolutely astounding, and I want to buy everything of hers. All 47 of them 🤣

@billyalarie929 4 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love the way Victoria articulates herself, and her candor is incredible.

@elmobert342739 6 жыл бұрын

This is what I miss most about college. Hearing an author speak so in-depth and beautifully about writing and reading just inspires and motivates me so much.

@feistyowls 6 жыл бұрын

She's so smart and well-spoken, I love her. *-*

@anv3254 6 жыл бұрын

That portal through the wall realisation gave me goosebumps

@dex_totalus 6 жыл бұрын

My queen. I love Victoria Schwab.

@lizalove91 5 жыл бұрын

I wish that I could hear the questions better, but wow her speech was incredible from start to finish. She is such an inspiration and an incredible writer. And her skirt has pockets!

@joshualavender 2 жыл бұрын

Great lecture! I related enormously to Schwab's story about, as a child, wanting the world to be magical and *more* than it is. I felt much the same way, and fantasies swirled around me, overlaying the real world, so it's not terribly surprising that eventually I became a writer too.

@kaitlinr9735 4 жыл бұрын

The fact that she got a signed copy of freaking HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE blows my mind and also makes me so freaking jealous omg

@trollking100 4 жыл бұрын

I've never read any of her work, never really heard of her. For a writer, reading should inspire you to write. Listening to her makes me want to write.

@sootygirl2991 6 жыл бұрын

This is... everything I’ve been trying to say for years but haven’t been able to express. Thank you.

@3868KIKI 3 жыл бұрын

This

@m1chaud 3 жыл бұрын

@@3868KIKI This indeed

@CariLois 6 жыл бұрын

This was a wonderful speech. The connection between doors and books is one that has and will continue to inspire me. As a reader and an aspiring writer, thank you. I will most definitely be visiting this speech again.

@Spatan295 5 жыл бұрын

My doorway was Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. I had watched some of the really old Greek Myth movies a year before I started reading them (Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts). Today, Riordan’s use of myths have influenced my own writing and how I approach the use of different cultures in it. This is such a wonderful lecture. Thank you for this!

@joncarter2436 6 жыл бұрын

i felt all my hair rising from her speech. it is so wonderful.

@dex_totalus 6 жыл бұрын

Jon Carter I wish I could get this in print.

@billyalarie929 4 жыл бұрын

She is an absolute miracle.

@etbadaboum 6 жыл бұрын

I have to admit that I've never heard of V. E. Schwab before listening to this talk. But there are many open doors... (My main door to literature was Richard Bachman and nothing to be ashamed of that, far from it).

@hpbruin 6 жыл бұрын

Such a fantastic lecture! I wish I could have seen it in person. And I love that she openly admits that she has never read LOTR, and probably doesn’t want to read it either. I’m in the same boat.

@MarcellineCazz 6 жыл бұрын

Fabulous lecture. So glad I got to see it via KZfaq. Love that each of your books is unique and new without all the old tropes but filled with fascinating people and places and magic realities. I also had to laugh as your accent would come and go. I guess that's what happens when you live in two different places.

@m1chaud 3 жыл бұрын

This resonates so well with me, it's crazy. V.E. Schwab is, no doubt, extremely amazing. I rarely admire people, even if I enjoy their work, but listening to Schwab talk? Damn.

@rosaiglesias904 6 жыл бұрын

I love her.

@justvalnow6642 5 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I needed to hear. I adore Victoria’s books.

@aya129131 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful talk.

@meebmabeeb 6 жыл бұрын

I love how you start wearing a lazy and lovely Scottish accent as the questions go on.

@HollowMoonReads 5 жыл бұрын

I hear it!

@bruadarach9758 5 жыл бұрын

As a Scot... I think she sounds more Irish 😂

@the_bob_147 4 жыл бұрын

I'm here because my door to books especially fantasy was a darker shade of magic

@SarahAtHeart 6 жыл бұрын

So beautiful! Such a fantastic job!

@ceridwenn26 6 жыл бұрын

Such a powerful speech. I loved it

@135ellu246 6 жыл бұрын

This is everything! Thank you for uploading this!

@CEOWinter 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful and inspiring!

@shannonwooldridge719 6 жыл бұрын

this is incredible.

@mcvaycastaway3523 2 жыл бұрын

I've made a great discovery in Victoria. Addie Larue is a work to be savored. Miss Schwab reminds me of one of my favorite characters: Velma Dinkly, of scooby doo fame. I'm so happy to have a new favorite author.

@katharineschwab2947 6 жыл бұрын

you're an inspiration!

@BookEnthusiast 6 жыл бұрын

I found my door in c.s. Lewis and Harry Potter and I have yet to read tolken

@satishvarshney8202 2 жыл бұрын

"I grew wanting the world to be stranger than it was" - V.E. Schwab

@Mariak82 3 жыл бұрын

really enjoyed watching. It was The Hobbit for me that started my love of reading and books when i was about 10 and i am now 38. 📚 Just finished reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue yesterday. I loved it and gave it 5 out of 5 stars.

@myribstellmesheslying 6 жыл бұрын

She even talks poetically.

@meebmabeeb 6 жыл бұрын

YES MOM YESSSS

@jyjryu22799 3 жыл бұрын

Omg as she talks, she takes on a totally different accent 😮 humans are incredible

@Runehammer1 6 жыл бұрын

baller.

@robertnewberry7799 2 жыл бұрын

Hey VE, I was wondering if you were interested in a date. Perhaps I could read you The Lord of the Rings?

@billyalarie929 4 жыл бұрын

A cult leader or a novelist. I mean.... Yes?

@carous7675 6 жыл бұрын

Once again a writer complaining about stories about white, straight, nondisablem, skinny man and forgeting that a lot of stories goes around whiteness in general. And kind of feel like her: I want to see a female pirate. But not only that: a black female pirate. Maybe I should become a writer instead of waiting that writers will give a crap about representativity.

@richadaiya6713 6 жыл бұрын

P L E A S E give us a black female pirate, that would be FANTASTIC!!!

@AvengeTheFallen 6 жыл бұрын

In her book Conjuring of Light there is a fantastic character named Maris who is a black queen of what is essentially a pirate market. I'm really hoping she makes another appearance in the continuation series of that world!

@Panamamacpc 6 жыл бұрын

I read this on the Tor site. I do not disagree with her points of view in general. I do however think somebody ought to stipulate that the difference between Rowling's 'Harry Potter' and Tolkien is DIFFICULTY. If Hogwarts is what does it for her, fine. HOWEVER, to take a backhanded sort of pride in NOT reading Tolkien smacks of laziness and even a sniff of arrogance. Certainly The Hobbit wouldn't take her more than a long afternoon into a single evening. But then she could not elicit reactions.

@Panamamacpc 6 жыл бұрын

It is the difference between Star Trek and DUNE.

@myribstellmesheslying 6 жыл бұрын

But as she said, she'll eventually read it in her own time. She's not averse to reading it, just that it had been pushed to her far too many times that instead of persuading her, it did otherwise. I don't get why there should be something to read to validate being a reader. I've read Tolkien by the way.

@sammie9088 5 жыл бұрын

Her point is that she wants to read them for enjoyment not out of necessity so she is waiting until she really truly wants to read them. Don't tell me you always read everything you're told and appreciate its brilliance even when you aren't in the mood? Sure you can read that way but it is my experience that such a process greatly dampens the overall experience and impact of reading.