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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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8:54

Week 084 - Silmarillion Saturday: Strange and Free

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/21

While the episode title fairly describes this podcast (and, in a way, its host), it’s actually what the Valar saw in the Children of Ilúvatar as we continue our reading of the Ainulindalë from The Silmarillion.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:59

Week 084 - First Age Friday: A Great Yearning

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/20

Tuor finds his way to the shores of the Great Sea and is struck with a deep Sea-longing in today’s continued reading in Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin in Unfinished Tales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:47

Week 084 - Third Age Thursday: To the Day’s Rising

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/19

Join The Man of the West as he walks through some of the most powerful alliterative verses in The Lord of the Rings, including Rohirric ‘epitaph poems’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:55

Week 084 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Intelligent Man

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/18

Today’s episode title is clearly not referring to The Man of the West, but you’ll have to listen to find out who it is talking about. Join in as we look at the names of Brandir, Handir, Ephel Brandir, Amon Obel, Haleth and yet another of Túrin’s names. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:10

Week 084 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: In Peace Unshadowed

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/17

If only Túrin were right about that. Join The Man of the West as we continue reading the story of Túrin who finally takes the overly-optimistic name of Turambar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:04

Week 084 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Rush and Chatter

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/16

No, The Man of the West isn’t in a hurry and he’s no more talkative than usual. Today’s Middle-earth Map Monday continues our visit in Rohan as we stop by the Fords of Isen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:54

Week 083 - Silmarillion Saturday: Shall Prove But...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/14

Join The Man of the West as he continues his reading of Ainulindalë, reaching the passage that spawned the classic PPP acronym, SPBMI.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:22

Week 083 - First Age Friday: Through Darkness

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/13

Tuor begins his journeys and runs into two unexpected Elves who have some counsel — and unexpected prophecy — for the outlaw. Also, blue lamps! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:47

Week 083 - Third Age Thursday: Fealty Kept He

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/12

Join The Man of the West as he takes a deep dive into dark Dunharrow and the dim morning, studying the alliterative verse of Rohan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:38

Week 083 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Get Used to...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/11

The Man of the West swings and misses at three words today, but still manages to bat .500 as he just keeps swinging. (Not a baseball fan? Please forgive the baseball analogy.)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:25

Week 083 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: I Offer Thee Freedom

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/10

And if you really think that’s what Glaurung is offering, I’ve got a bridge to sell you — and it’s nowhere near Nargothrond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:50

Week 083 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Tap by Tap

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/09

Join The Man of the West as he continues his trip through Rohan on Middle-earth Map Monday in a visit to the caves of Helm’s Deep: the Glittering Caves of Aglarond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:47

Week 082 - Silmarillion Saturday: Like Unto Countless...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/07

It’s time for a deep dive into the musical origins of creation in the first of six readings in the Ainulindalë, the Music of the Ainur, from The Silmarillion.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:15

Week 082 - First Age Friday: An Outlaw in the Land of...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/06

Join The Man of the West for a new series of First Age Fridays as we look at the tale Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin from Unfinished Tales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:31

Week 082 - Third Age Thursday: Need Shall Drive Him

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/05

The Man of the West takes a long look at the words of Malbeth the Seer — including a look at the drafts when Malbeth had nothing to do with this prophecy at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:32

Week 082 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Noble Towers, Silver...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/04

Join The Man of the West as he powers his word-nerd way through six words from yesterday’s reading in the Tale of Túrin Turambar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:48

Week 082 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: Yet I Rue the Day

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/03

We continue our Túrin Turambar Tuesdays as Ulmo sends Orodreth some good advice, and Túrin promptly ignores it. Gwindor loses everything, and Túrin gets one more chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:11

Week 082 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Far-off Days...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/06/02

Join The Man of the West as he begins Series 11 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a return to Middle-earth Map Monday as our Rohan road trip stops at Súthburg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:56

Week 081 - Silmarillion Saturday: With His Servant?!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/05/10

I’d say Sam needs a new publicist. Join The Man of the West as we close out our time in Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age with, uh, well, the end of the Third Age.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:41

Week 081 - Fandom Friday: Don Marshall

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/05/09

Join The Man of the West in welcoming back Don Marshall to Today’s Tolkien Times, as he tells us about the new book he’s writing!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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