{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":""Red Queen" Author Victoria Aveyard on "The Lord of the Rings" || Books That Changed My Life","description":"To win your FREE, SIGNED copy of Tempest, click here: https:\/\/booksthatchangedmylife.org\/pages\/win-a-book-3 (Copies will ship as soon as they are available). On this episode of Books That Changed My Life, all-star fantasy author Victoria Aveyard joins Chris Collins to talk about The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien \u2014 the book that turned a bookish kid from western Massachusetts into a bestselling storyteller. Victoria remembers walking out of Fellowship of the Ring at 11 years old, marching straight to Target, buying the paperback, and carrying it through seventh grade until the spine was beat to death. She read it 12 times that year. She talks about what Tolkien understands about grief and small things, why Boromir is the most human character in the Fellowship, and why she's a stalwart "Helms Deep girl." The conversation moves into Victoria's own writing life \u2014 keeping store hours in a floral-wallpapered office, choreographing scenes on walks set to the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack, and accidentally turning in a 300,000-word manuscript her publisher couldn't physically bind. She also previews Tempest, her first adult novel \u2014 a romantic pirate fantasy, and her love letter to the swashbuckling stories she grew up on. #booksthatchangedmylife #books #library #bookrecs #bookreport #interview #podcast #chrisbulldogcollins \ud83d\udea8 Grab the coolest book & library tees, socks, hoodies & more! https:\/\/booksthatchangedmylife.org\/collections\/all ","author_name":"Books That Changed My Life","author_url":"https:\/\/www.booksthatchangedmylife.org","html":"