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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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10:05

Week 101 - Third Age Thursday: Like a Glitter of Stars

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/27

Join The Man of the West for the third episode on the Haradrim, as we look at the actions of the Southrons in The War of the Ring in another of our deep dives of the Men of Darkness in the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:05

Week 101 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ugly Shaggy Hair, Son...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/26

No, this isn’t The Man of the West saying his son needs a haircut; today’s Word-nerd Wednesday looks at the Sindarin names of some of the new arrivals in Beleriand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:41

Week 101 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Don’t Know if They Have...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/25

The Man of the West says the same about TTT episodes, but one of today’s letters sees the Professor say this about some of his poems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:00

Week 101 - Middle-earth Map Monday: An Unconsuming Fire

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/24

Welcome to the start of the next 100 weeks of Today’s Tolkien Times, with a Middle-earth Map Monday spent in the “window of some elven-tower, curtained with threaded jewels”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:43

Week 100 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Sons of Galdor

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/22

Join The Man of the West as he celebrates his 600th episode of Today’s Tolkien Times, just in time to see Húrin and Huor rescued and taken to Gondolin!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:35

Week 100 - First Age Friday: Hasty Jottings

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/21

Join The Man of the West as we finally get Tuor’s passport stamped for Gondolin — and we learn a few more things that never made it off the scrap of paper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:52

Week 100 - Third Age Thursday: He Did Not Like It Much

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/20

Part two of our look at the Haradrim in this series on Men of Darkness covers the long, conflict-filled history of the Third Age as the Men of the Harad find themselves allied with Black Númenóreans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:35

Week 100 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Mist of Fear

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/19

Join The Man of the West as he discovers there’s a lot less word-nerdery on Barahir’s companions than he’d expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:02

Week 100 - Tolkien Tuesday: Unmingled

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/18

We move on from Tolkien’s beef with the Swedish translator (finally), with a look at another of Tolkien’s letters to Rhona Beare, with this one feeling a bit like an early Word-nerd Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:00

Week 100 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Saxifrages and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/17

Join The Man of the West for a milestone week of Today’s Tolkien Times, as he starts with a visit to the region of North Ithilien on Middle-earth Map Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:09

Week 099 - Silmarillion Saturday: A Measure of Truth

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/15

Join The Man of the West as he continues this series’ read-through Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin, as Sauron captures a strategic location.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:21

Week 099 - First Age Friday: Greater and More Lordly

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/14

We return to yet another title that could (never) be said of The Man of the West. Join Alan as he drags Tuor through the Sixth and Seventh Gates, only to meet a guy with a diamond helmet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:02

Week 099 - Third Age Thursday: For a Different Purpose

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/13

Join The Man of the West as he begins an extended look at yet another group of the Men of Darkness: the Haradrim.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:02

Week 099 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Baragund and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/12

Join The Man of the West as he discovers an unlikely connection in this week’s fan favorite Philology Faire… uh, Word-nerd Wednesday. (You heard the music, didn’t you?)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:46

Week 099 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Farrago of Nonsense

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/11

Once considered as a subtitle for Today’s Tolkien Times, today’s title is Tolkien’s response to a continued onslaught of silliness from a Swedish translator of The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:37

Week 099 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Haughty and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/10

Most definitely not describing The Man of the West… right? Join Alan as he begins the 99th week of episodes for Today’s Tolkien Times with a look at the Gondorian capital city — not that one: Osgiliath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:05

Week 098 - Silmarillion Saturday: So By Perilous Paths

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/08

In this week’s reading of “I hope I never have to do that”, we learn about the hero Emeldir and how her actions saved the future of Middle-earth. Also, Robin Hood and his… not-likely-merry men.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:16

Week 098 - First Age Friday: As Moonlight Through a...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/07

Join The Man of the West as we continue our climb through the Orfalch Echor, this time passing through the Gates of Iron and Silver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:17

Week 098 - Third Age Thursday: Strong and War-hardened

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/06

Most assuredly not describing The Man of the West, today’s episode continues our look at the Easterlings over the last 500 years of the Third Age.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:13

Week 098 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Back Away from the...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/05

Join The Man of the West as he walks through the meanings of several important names from our readings in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin — and also proves why he’s not a language consultant for any TV or film adaptations.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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