Guy Gavriel Kay: Just Enough Light: Some Thoughts on Fantasy and Literature.

I'm sharing this because it's: The antidote to Brandon Sanderson! (whom I've read and enjoyed, I should say -- the "antidote" bit is clickbait)

YouTube description: The eighth annual J.R.R Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature. Broadcast online from Pembroke College, Oxford, Tuesday May 11th 2021.

 

[LJ Beck]

Listening to GGK and Sanderson, you can get a very good idea of how their books will feel.