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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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9:02

Week 062 - Third Age Thursday: Boromir Belays Begging...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/11/07

That’s it, no more alliteration today. The Man of the West reads a bit more poetry in The Lord of the Rings, starting with a verse that stymied Men of Gondor, followed by a brief warning from Bilbo about the weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:15

Week 062 - Word-nerd Wednesday: How Many Names Can a...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/11/06

Join The Man of the West as he looks at far more names for Rivendell than you might have expected, and reads a bit about Tolkien’s adventures in the Swiss valley that inspired it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:51

Week 062 - Tolkien Tuesday: Far More Unsatisfactory

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/11/05

Now I’m just feeling called out; fortunately, those words of Tolkien’s were reserved for the storyline of Zimmerman in Letter #210 as we continue our walk through this collection of unmitigated frustration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:56

Week 062 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Good Counsel and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/11/04

Join The Man of the West as he extends his Middle-earth Map Monday visit to Rivendell by an extra week, to look at the role it played in the history of the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:50

Week 061 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Zenith of Its...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/11/02

They just don’t know how good they have it, do they? Join The Man of the West as he watches the diminishing of the bliss of Westernesse in the next installment of the Akallabêth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:46

Week 061 - First-Age Friday: Hungry Like the Wolf

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/11/01

It’s all discord and rhyme as Sauron sends a mighty wolf to slay Beren, but Finrod does his thing instead and we all mourn the death of the First Age’s best Elf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:40

Week 061 - Third Age Thursday: Beyond the Wide and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/31

Join The Man of the West, who’s extending his visit in Rivendell awhile, as he looks at a song that Bilbo describes only as “a song to Elbereth”. That’s like saying the Silmarils are these shiny jewels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:20

Week 061 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Well, Isn’t That Special

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/30

What do Dana Carvey and the Flammifer of Westernesse have in common? Well, you’ll have to check out this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:32

Week 061 - Tolkien Tuesday: Wholly Unacceptable...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/29

While that could easily have been the Professor’s response to The Man of the West’s occasional irreverent jokes, it was just one of a dozen slams in this week’s continuing look at the infamous Letter #210 about an adaptation that was, thankfully, never made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:13

Week 061 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Smells Like Elves

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/28

Join The Man of the West for another Middle-earth Map Monday as we arrive at The Last Homely House, just in time for lunch — and a long talk about the Second Age history of Rivendell! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:58

Week 060 - Silmarillion Saturday: As Moths In a Light...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/26

Yearning becomes doubt, doubt becomes secret griping, and secret griping becomes open rebellion as the Men of Númenor begin the long walk to their Downfall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:36

Week 060 - First-Age Friday: Friendship That to Death...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/25

The bestest boy ever speaks for the first time, to help Lúthien escape the clutches of Celegorm, an Elf with nearly as many red flags as his father.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:41

Week 060 - Third Age Thursday: Tarried There From...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/24

The Man of the West finishes his reading and discussion of Bilbo’s cheeky poem about Eärendil in this week’s Third Age Thursday.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:07

Week 060 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Beyond the West

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/23

Dive deep into several words from last week’s Silmarillion Saturday reading as The Man of the West explores the names of one mountain, two cities, and four trees on this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:01

Week 060 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Last Thing that...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/22

Eat Éowyn’s stew? No, but find you as The Man of the West continues to read Tolkien’s Letter 210, eviscerating the storyline for a proposed film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:33

Week 060 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Tall and Fair

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/21

Join The Man of the West for another week of Today’s Tolkien Times as he starts out with Middle-earth Map Monday and a return to the journey of Strider and the Hobbits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:37

Week 059 - Silmarillion Saturday: All Is Now Forgot

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/19

While an accurate representation of the state of The Man of the West’s mind most days, today’s episode title actually refers to the state of all the wisdom and wonder written in the scrolls and books of Númenor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:44

Week 059 - First-Age Friday: The Goodest of Good Boys

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/18

It’s time to step away from the sorrowful fate of Finrod in Sauron’s dungeons as we hang out with Celegorm and Curufin (boo!) long enough to meet the faithful hound, Huan (yay!) in Canto IX of The Lay of Leithian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:00

Week 059 - Third Age Thursday: A Merry Passenger, a...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/17

Join The Man of the West as he starts his study of Bilbo’s latest chart-topping single, The Song of Eärendil, and learns just how many versions of it there really were. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:08

Week 059 - Word-nerd Wednesday: How About...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/10/16

Arvedui finds out what his name really means, as The Man of the West looks at his name and other words from our Middle-earth Map Monday episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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