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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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10:49

Week 069 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Laughter of Ilúvatar

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/21

Tolkien presents two important stories from The Silmarillion 20 years before the book is published, as he explains in Letter 212 the tale of Míriel and of the Creation of the Dwarves by Aulë.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:40

Week 069 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Too Numerous and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/20

Join The Man of the West as he ends his three-week look at the Dwarven kingdom of Khazad-dûm! From Galadriel’s far-sightedness and the innocence of the Dwarves of Belegost, we move deep into the Third Age and the fall of Moria. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:41

Week 068 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Sky Reeled, and...

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2025/01/18

Númenor pays the ultimate price for its pride and rebellion as Ar-Pharazôn suddenly discovers he’d rather not have immortality after all in this week’s installment of the Akallabêth on Silmarillion Saturday!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:26

Week 068 - First-Age Friday: In Love Must In Thy...

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2025/01/17

The bestest good boy ever has some hard words for Beren before providing the best cosplay advice ever in another episode on The Lay of Leithian on this week’s First Age Friday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:10

Week 068 - Third Age Thursday: An Old Man in a...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/16

Once again, no this isn’t a title describing The Man of the West: he doesn’t really wear hats. But Gandalf did, and Frodo missed him — so he sang a lament that we’ll take a look at in this week’s Third Age Thursday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:37

Week 068 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The World-Artificer...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/15

Join The Man of the West for another Word-nerd Wednesday: this week’s contestants on ‘Who’s Got the Coolest Name?’ are the Valar of Smithing and of Hunting: Aulë and Oromë.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:09

Week 068 - Tolkien Tuesday: Of Equal Lineage

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/14

It’s time to remind those Elves that they’re no better than us as The Man of the West looks at Letter 212 where Tolkien “adds a few lines” about the mythological framework behind all of the legendarium. A few lines, he said.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:32

Week 068 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Given Without Love

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/13

Join The Man of the West as he starts Week 68 of Today’s Tolkien Times with another Middle-earth Map Monday in Moria as we look at more of the names of the Mansions of the Dwarves and a bit of its early history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:04

Week 067 - Silmarillion Saturday: Repent For a Season

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/11

Join The Man of the West as we spend just a few more weeks in the Akallabêth, watching the train wreck of Númenor. Ar-Pharazôn ignores the signs and tries to take a thing that can’t be taken on this week’s Silmarillion Saturday.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:01

Week 067 - First-Age Friday: Yet Were Its Making Good

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/10

Beren bids farewell to everything and prepares to meet his fate alone — but Lúthien has other ideas. Join The Man of the West for another series in The Lay of Lúthien on First-Age Fridays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:32

Week 067 - Third Age Thursday: As Light As Leaf of...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/09

Legolas sings a sad song about Nimrodel as The Man of the West continues his walk through the poems and songs in The Lord of the Rings in Series 9’s Third Age Thursdays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:13

Week 067 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ainur We Have Heard...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/08

The Man of the West begins an 8-week look at the names of the Valar and Maiar — beginning with those exact words, actually. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:56

Week 067 - Tolkien Tuesday: At the End of the Sixth Age

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/07

Tolkien tells us that the Fall of Barad-dûr was about 6000 years ago as The Man of the West continues his run through the Letters on Tolkien Tuesdays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:55

Week 067 - Middle-earth Map Monday: And I Mean ALL...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/01/06

Join The Man of the West as he begins Series 9 of the TTT with another Middle-earth Map Monday momentarily on the meritorious megalopolis of Moria. Okay, we’ll stop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:56

Week 066 - I Smell Goblin Strong

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2024/12/21

Join The Man of the West as he tries not to imagine what goblin smells like, let alone *strong* goblin. We wrap up this special holiday celebration by looking at the second half of that 1932 letter.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:24

Week 066 - Properly Drawn Bears

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/12/20

If you’re struggling with drawing bears, Karhu might be able to help you. It’s time for the first part of the long 1932 Letter From Father Christmas, as goblins enter the fray! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:03

Week 066 - Paksu and Valkotukka

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/12/19

North Polar Bear’s cousins — ‘fat’ and ‘white-hair’ — show up and immediately cause the sort of turmoil you’d imagine NPB’s relatives to cause. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:32

Week 066 - Polar Bears Get Whooping Cough?

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/12/18

Join The Man of the West for another Letter From Father Christmas as we learn of North Polar Bear’s illness and recovery — and his not-thought-through decision to replace coal with ice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:37

Week 066 - My Real Name is Karhu

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/12/17

It’s time for more adventures with Father Christmas and North Polar Bear as Father Christmas is grateful for time zones around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:26

Week 066 - Don’t Be a Silly Bear

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/12/16

Join The Man of the West for a special holiday celebration as we read through Letters From Father Christmas so that we can all realize what inadequate parents we are — or something like that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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