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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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23:07

Week 052 - Fandom Friday: The Dwarf of the Year Returns

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/24

The Man of the West changes up Fandom Fridays for the rest of Series 7, with a focus on Tolkien content creators who were at San Diego ComicCon, getting their take on the upcoming Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Today, Varking Runesong joins us for chat that will inevitably include Dwarves!

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9:49

Week 052 - Third Age Thursday: Tree-Tangled Middle-Lands

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/24

Join The Man of the West as the hobbits encounter Noldorin Exiles in the Shire, singing a beautiful Hymn to Elbereth. We also wonder about Gildor’s parentage.

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8:43

Week 052 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Snow White is Very...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/24

Look, I’m just saying what Tolkien says, okay? Sure, he means the translation of Fanuilos, and not the Disney princess, but maybe that’s true as well.

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9:03

Week 052 - Tolkien Tuesday: Scant Resemblance

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/24

The Man of the West returns to Carpenter’s book on the Inklings, this time to seriously question the notion of Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield as ‘The Oxford Christians’.

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7:21

Week 053 - Third Age Thursday: A Mug of Beer Inside...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/22

Is not a line in any of the three of Tolkien’s poems we’ll look at today. But if you think The Man of the West can avoid humming this tune, you could be wrong.

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6:16

Week 053 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Hey Now, You’re an...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/21

The Man of the West engages in a little star-gazing as he breaks down the names of the regions of the island of Númenor in this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday.

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7:44

Week 053 - Tolkien Tuesday: I’m Not Accurate

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/20

While today’s episode title could reflect The Man of the West on nearly any given day, this time it’s a self-deprecating quote from C.S. Lewis, as we continue our look for the fox that may not be there.

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7:20

Week 053 - Middle-earth Map Monday: An Old Name… in...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/19

Join The Man of the West as he begins another week of the TTT with a close look at the town not at all named for a soft, spreadable cheese.

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7:18

Week 052 - Second Age Saturday: Myself as a Tame Hound

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/17

Join The Man of the West as Aldarion shares his unfiltered opinion with his father, King Meneldur — just as the king is about to make a major announcement regarding the future of Númenor.

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21:38

Week 052 - Fandom Friday: The Dwarf of the Year Returns

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/16

The Man of the West changes up Fandom Fridays for the rest of Series 7, with a focus on Tolkien content creators who were at San Diego ComicCon, getting their take on the upcoming Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Today, Varking Runesong joins us for chat that will inevitably include Dwarves!

en

8:20

Week 052 - Third Age Thursday: Tree-Tangled Middle-Lands

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/15

Join The Man of the West as the hobbits encounter Noldorin Exiles in the Shire, singing a beautiful Hymn to Elbereth. We also wonder about Gildor’s parentage.

en

7:14

Week 052 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Snow White is Very...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/14

Look, I’m just saying what Tolkien says, okay? Sure, he means the translation of Fanuilos, and not the Disney princess, but maybe that’s true as well.

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7:34

Week 052 - Tolkien Tuesday: Scant Resemblance

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/13

The Man of the West returns to Carpenter’s book on the Inklings, this time to seriously question the notion of Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield as ‘The Oxford Christians’.

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9:05

Week 052 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Forefathers...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/12

Join The Man of the West as he begins the week with a return to the new segment on Middle-earth Map Monday. Also, linguistic changes are unpredictable.

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8:46

Week 051 - Second Age Saturday: Of What Worth Is Choice?

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/10

It’s time to return to our readings in Númenor as King Meneldur thinks through a no-win situation and makes a momentous decision regarding the future, as Aldarion has some contemptuous words for his father.

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18:40

Week 051 - Fandom Friday: It’s Complicated

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/09

Join The Man of the West as he welcomes Inklings scholar Sørina Higgins to Fandom Friday to talk about the Oddest Inkling, Charles Williams, and explain some of the shifts in the way Tolkien viewed their friendship after his death.

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6:02

Week 051 - Third Age Thursday: Round the Next Corner

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/08

We continue our look at poetry and songs in The Lord of the Rings by taking a deep dive into one of Bilbo’s songs, set to a tune “as old as the hills” (yet somehow younger than The Man of the West).

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7:35

Week 051 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Shout, Shout, Let It...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/07

Join The Man of the West for a closer look at the name of Gil-galad’s father… or, maybe his father, or maybe not. Where’s Maury Povich when you need him? Also, bonus word-nerdery on the Vanyar’s favorite Valar.

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7:09

Week 051 - Tolkien Tuesday: Your Laugh In My Heart...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/06

We continue in our time in Humphrey Carpenter’s book, The Inklings, as we look more closely at the conflicted nature of Tolkien’s friendship with Charles Williams, and a poem the Professor wrote about his friend.

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8:39

Week 051 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Memory of...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/05

Join The Man of the West for another week of Today’s Tolkien Times as he returns to a new Monday segment looking at places in Middle-earth. This time, we visit the place Fredegar Bolger feared as much as Mordor: The Old Forest.

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