May 3, 2018
a poem
perhaps the moon is in the sea reflecting up against the sky as night beams bathe in ocean waves and all the stars swim by
~ Victoria/V.E. Schwab
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a poem
perhaps the moon is in the sea reflecting up against the sky as night beams bathe in ocean waves and all the stars swim by
~ Victoria/V.E. Schwab
Tolkien Lecture | V.E. Schwab - fantasy quote
When I say fantasy I simply mean a story in which one foot or heel or toe is not planted on firm, familiar ground but my favorite fantasies are the ones where the other foot is. Where the line between the known and the new, the observable reality and the strange fantastic is dotted if not blurred. It goes back to my childhood searching those lake tahoe hills for cracks in the strone that might be doors because a fantasy set entirley in another world is an escapism with limits. You can read about it, sure, but you can never really get there. Fantasy with the door, a portal, a way in that breeds a different kind of belief.
~ V.E. Schwab
I know I saw somewhere on here a post about Neil Gaiman being selected to give a talk, the Tolkien Lecture, and it included a link to their youtube page where you can listen to the earlier talks. I can't find that post (thought I RB it but maybe not, or maybe it was really more than a week ago? time does fly at this time of the year) or I would append this link to it. BUT ANYWAY I just listened to Terri Windling's talk and it's great! and there are several more to catch up with before Neil's talk gets added to the list.
It takes a special kind of evil to have a session in your lecture, where you only promote the rest of your lecture. Three weeks after the semester has started.
If you do a second lecture on Tolkien, maybe you shouldn’t make such errors as calling Thorin “Thor”...
"Tolkien is not really a Science Fiction author despite what people think."
Who ever thought Tolkien wrote Science Fiction? Really?
"And just because G.R.R.M is called the American Tolkien, we will use passages from his works to explain the reasoning of Tolkien's Characters and his own."
The vibe I'm getting in this lecture is "Tokien said his works are not an allegory, but I will use it as one. XD"