Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees
Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees is a collection of the after-dinner speeches held at the Annual Dinners of The Tolkien Society. There have been three volumes of Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees covering speeches from 1980 to 2000. Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees has been published by The Tolkien Society as volumes 5, 6 and 11 in the Peter Roe Memorial Fund series.
Volume 1
- 1980: Tom Shippey, "Inspiration and Invention, or Where Tolkien Got Stuck"
- 1983: Tom Shippey, "...I thought of the incident of Zeebrugge which nobody wrote about at all..."
- 1986: Geraldine Harris, "...'Growing trees' when I should have been 'digging potatoes'..."
Volume 2
- 1990: Rayner Unwin, "'How many more volumes in this series?' I don't know, Christopher doesn't know"
- 1991: Tom Shippey, "What have these people got in common? One thing... they had all been shot at"
- 1992: Colin Duriez, "'Art has been verified...' The friendship of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis"
- 1995: Joan Anne Tolkien, "...asked many times - and it still surprises me - 'Did you know your grandfather?'"
- 1996: René van Rossenberg, "...When I made a mental picture of The Shire, I saw dykes, windmills, rectangular tulip-fields"
- 1997: Colin Duriez, "Tolkien and the Old West"
Volume 3
- 1995: Charles A. Coulombe, "The Ethics of Escape"
- 1998: Michael Tolkien, "Eden, Fall, Exile and Beyond"
- 1999: Michael Scott Rohan, "Whether it was genetic or cultural or religious disposition, Tolkien loved music"
- 2000: Patrick Curry, "On Hobbits and Elves: or Took and Baggins Again"
Referencias
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