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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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11:38

Week 072 - Third Age Thursday: The Lore of Living...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/13

Aragorn longs for Gondor and a crown buried for a thousand years; Merry and Pippin long to be included in a list of people who don’t get squished by Ents.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:42

Week 072 - Word-nerd Wednesday: An Actual Perfect 10

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/12

Join The Man of the West as we look at more names of the Valier, running down quite the list today including Nienna, Estë, Vairë, Vána, and Nessa.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:05

Week 072 - Tolkien Tuesday: Considerable Social...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/11

You don’t need me to tell you that today’s title has nothing to do with The Man of the West. Rather, it’s about hobbit birthdays in a letter Tolkien wrote to someone who tried to out-pedant the Professor.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:10

Week 072 - Middle-earth Map Monday: And the Land Was...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/10

Join The Man of the West for the third and final episode on the land of Lórien as we learn all about its time under the leadership of not-King Celeborn and not-Queen Galadriel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:21

Week 071 - Silmarillion Saturday: Is It Not Then Our...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/08

Join The Man of the West as the Noldor of Eregion hearken to the persuasive words of the Lord of Gifts, much to their dismay.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:09

Week 071 - First-Age Friday: Thy Name, Thou Shrieking...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/07

“I’ll take ‘Pickup Lines That Result in Failure’ for $500, Alex.” Join The Man of the West for suggestions on what not to say when talking to… well, anyone. Beren and Lúthien descend to the pits of hell itself in today’s First Age Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:53

Week 071 - Third Age Thursday: His Cloven Shield, His...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/06

Join The Man of the West as Aragorn and Legolas sing a lament for Boromir, while Gimli watches on quietly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:17

Week 071 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Lady of the West and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/05

We continue looking at names of the Valar in this series’ Word-nerd Wednesdays, today diving into the names of two of the Queens of the Valar, or the Valier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:30

Week 071 - Tolkien Tuesday: Juicy Details

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/04

Join The Man of the West as we look at Tolkien’s response to a letter asking him for ‘facts’ about himself, and discover that while he doesn’t like giving them, he certainly seems quite willing to do so.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:55

Week 071 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Long Years of...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/03

No, that doesn’t describe the tenure of The Man of the West at The Prancing Pony Podcast — although it certainly could. Join Alan as he continues his look at the land of Lórien. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:44

Week 070 - Silmarillion Saturday: Back Into Evil

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/02/01

Repent? Sure! Oh, on second thought. Join The Man of the West as Sauron waffles in our first reading in Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age (or OtRoPatTA as we call it here).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:50

Week 070 - First-Age Friday: Immortal Flowers

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/31

Sometimes, having a strong perfume isn’t such a good idea. Join The Man of the West as he accompanies Beren and Lúthien to the very gates of Angband — and a confrontation with the Red Maw himself.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:32

Week 070 - Third Age Thursday: More Quenya!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/30

The Man of the West is in his happy place, reading the longest piece of Quenya text in The Lord of the Rings as we look at Galadriel’s Lament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:43

Week 070 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Tulk Smash

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/29

Join The Man of the West for a look at the captain of the Valar football team, Tulkas Astaldo. And because we don’t get to ignore him, Melkor also makes an appearance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:09

Week 070 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sufferers Please Note

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/28

The Professor laments the process of getting work done at the house, and dispenses great medical advice to his cousin, and to us as well, on this week’s Tolkien Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:10

Week 070 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Greatly At Variance

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/27

Join The Man of the West as he tries to untangle the knots Tolkien gave us in The History of Galadriel and Celeborn as he begins his look at Lothlórien on Middle-earth Map Mondays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:16

Week 069 - Silmarillion Saturday: All Roads Are Now Bent

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/25

It’s a busy time for cartographers after the Downfall of Númenor, as we read about the aftermath of Atalantë in the last reading of the Akallabêth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:25

Week 069 - First-Age Friday: Fight With Thine Own...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/24

Join The Man of the West for a First Age Flashback in The Lay of Leithian as Fingolfin squares off against the mighty Morgoth, who would prefer to not to risk his undefeated record. Also, a huge bird! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:53

Week 069 - Third Age Thursday: Sad and Sweet Was the...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/23

We continue our journey through the songs and poems in The Lord of the Rings as we listen to Galadriel’s Song and her bittersweet memories of Eldamar, as she wonders what ship would ever bear her across so wide a Sea.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:04

Week 069 - Word-nerd Wednesday: My Brother’s Office...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/22

Join The Man of the West in his continued effort to uncover more about the names of the Valar: in today’s episode, we chat with the Masters of Spirits: Námo and his little brother, Irmo.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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