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Today"s Tolkien Times

The Prancing Pony Podcast

Get your Tolkien every day by subscribing to Today’s Tolkien Times! Alan Sisto, host of the award-winning Prancing Pony Podcast and Rings of Power Wrap-up, hosts a new short-format daily podcast available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever else you get your podcasts! Listeners get answers on Mailbag Mondays; discover more about the Professor on Tolkien Tuesdays; indulge your inner philologist on Word-nerd Wednesdays; learn more about the familiar stories of Middle-earth on Third Age

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10:24

Week 104 - Silmarillion Saturday: Less Aid Than...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/10

Join The Man of the West as Fëanor’s foolish oath bears unpleasant fruit more than 500 years later as we begin our reading about the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:59

Week 104 - First Age Friday: Both Fell to Ruin

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/09

While it is true that The Man of the West isn’t what he used to be, I’d hardly use ‘fell to ruin’. No, that’s just a Balrog of Morgoth and our old friend Glorfindel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:12

Week 104 - Third Age Thursday: Black Sails Bellying...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/08

We continue our look at the Men of Darkness in the Third Age as The Man of the West concludes his time studying the Corsairs of Umbar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:47

Week 104 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Little Tomfoolery

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/07

Join The Man of the West for some different word-nerdery, this time on some English-sounding names that aren’t especially English. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:14

Week 104 - Tolkien Tuesday: Heraldic Overtones

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/06

Continuing our look at Tolkien’s 1961 letter to his Aunt Jane, we find an argument for why a word like ‘argent’ is beautiful even before it is understood. Totally unlike The Man of the West, of course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:09

Week 104 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Tour of...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/05

Join The Man of the West as he begins the 14th Series of Today’s Tolkien Times with a look at the region of South Ithilien. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:32

Week 103 - Rude Little Errand Boy

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/20

Yes, that’s The Man of the West. But NPB means that to refer to Ilbereth, the secretary for Father Christmas, who writes the largest portion of this second half of the 1937 letter. What does roast Polar Bear taste like?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:02

Week 103 - One of the Cleverest Elves

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/19

Father Christmas wishes Tolkien a speedy recovery, and explains that he’s already giving away ‘second editions’ of The Hobbit just three months after its publication, as we look at the first part of the 1937 letter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:39

Week 103 - A Letter Worth Hearing

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/18

Join The Man of the West for the 1936 letter as Father Christmas introduces us to a new member of Team North Pole, and Polar Bear takes a very long bath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:04

Week 103 - Quite a Nasty Outbreak

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/17

It’s 1935, and Father Christmas grows concerned about the goblins, expecting trouble with them soon — but hey, elvish magic sparkler spears should do the trick, right? Right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:43

Week 103 - Frightful Mischief

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/16

While The Man of the West is sometimes guilty of such trouble, today’s title refers to guests at the North Pole in 1934: Polar Bear’s young cousins, Paksu and Valkotukka! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:20

Week 103 - I Enjoyed it Immensely!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/15

It’s time for our holiday tradition of reading from Letters From Father Christmas, this time starting in 1933 as Polar Bear continues his goblin-smashing ways! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:23

Week 102 - Silmarillion Saturday: Great in Strength...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/06

No, today’s title… oh, you know the joke by now. Join The Man of the West as we conclude our time in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin from The Silmarillion.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:22

Week 102 - First Age Friday: A Light Was in His Face...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/05

Just like yesterday, today’s title still isn’t a reference to The Man of the West — though it’s a bit more obvious this time. No, today’s the day we meet baby Eärendil, the half-elf who will save the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:28

Week 102 - Third Age Thursday: Enamored of Evil...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/04

No, I promise today’s title isn’t a reference to The Man of the West. Instead, it’s time to take a look at two more groups of the Men of Darkness: the Black Númenóreans and the Corsairs of Umbar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:36

Week 102 - Word-nerd Wednesday: And Now for Something...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/03

We step away from the First Age to do a very deep dive on a single word from our Middle-earth Map Monday discussion, and learn more about trees as a bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:53

Week 102 - Tolkien Tuesday: Other and Duller Things

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/02

Join The Man of the West as he begins a look at another letter from Tolkien to his Aunt Jane; turns out sorting through old poetry is better than the rest of the things Tolkien should be doing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:26

Week 102 - Middle-earth Map Monday: How Long Have I...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/12/01

I’d say about two days, if episodes of Today’s Tolkien Times are anything to go by. Join The Man of the West as he begins the last week of Series 13 by looking at the site of what Tolkien says is the eucatastrophe of the whole story.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:03

Week 101 - Silmarillion Saturday: At Least They Had...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/29

Join The Man of the West as he spends a year in Gondolin with the brothers Húrin and Huor, only to get left at the airport in the middle of the night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:37

Week 101 - First Age Friday: Word of the Woes Without

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/28

Tuor finally brings his message to Turgon; the King doesn’t take his advice, but does allow him to marry his daughter, as we shift chapters in our story of Tuor and Gondolin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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