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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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8:29

Week 050 - Second Age Saturday: Manwë Keep You Under...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/03

The Man of the West returns to the story of Aldarion and Erendis for another set of Second Age Saturdays. In today’s episode, we look over the shoulder of King Meneldur as he reads a very important letter from Gil-galad.

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21:15

Week 050 - Fandom Friday: Because It Was About Time

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/02

In a TTT first, The Man of the West has a co-host: Sara Brown, the Shield-maiden of Rohan. Join them as they interview the man behind the Welsh translation of The Hobbit.

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6:03

Week 050 - Third Age Thursday: My Evening-Rest

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/08/01

Join The Man of the West as he begins a series of readings through the poetry and songs of The Lord of the Rings… by starting with a song from The Hobbit.

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8:14

Week 050 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Scion of Kings

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/31

It’s time for another return to Word-nerd Wednesday, with today’s episode looking closely at the several names of the last High King of the Eldar. But not at his parentage.

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6:35

Week 050 - Tolkien Tuesday: We All Agree So

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/30

The Man of the West returns to Humphrey Carpenter’s book, The Inklings, for more on Tolkien and his circle of friends. Today, a closer look at the oddest Inkling, Charles Williams.

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9:43

Week 050 - Map Monday: The Land Was Rich and Kindly

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/29

Join The Man of the West as he begins a new series with a new Monday segment: Middle-earth Map Monday! In the first of this new segment, we learn the hobbits got a pretty good deal from Argeleb II.

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8:29

Week 049 - Second Age Saturday: Steel Hard to Break

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/13

Join The Man of the West as Aldarion all too briefly speaks with the daughter he abandoned years ago and coldly ignores her mother.

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8:55

Week 049 - First Age Friday: Master of Wolves

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/12

Finrod and his faithful followers accompany Beren north, and come up with one possible way to get by the Master of Wolves himself.

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9:12

Week 049 - Third Age Thursday: Even as Oromë the Great

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/11

It’s time for the last of our Théoden Thursday specials as The Man of the West takes us through the King of Rohan’s finest moments.

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6:24

Week 049 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Golden-Haired Champion

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/10

Join The Man of the West as he takes a closer look at the names of his favorite Elf from the First Age, including one that might have just been a derisive nickname from the sons of Fëanor.

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6:20

Week 049 - Tolkien Tuesday: Our Revered Hobbit-Ancestors

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/09

It’s time for another few letters in the Revised and Expanded edition, this time as we accompany Professor Tolkien on a trip to Rotterdam for maggot-soup and pipe-weed!

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8:36

Week 049 - Mailbag Monday: With Vigour, Please

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/09

Join The Man of the West for the last week of Series 6 of Today’s Tolkien Times as he answers a question — okay, five questions — about the Dúnedain.

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8:59

Week 048 - Second Age Saturday: I Am Mistaken, It Seems

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/06

It’s time for another heartbreaking episode in the tragic tale of Aldarion and Erendis as the King’s Heir finally returns home and meets the consequences of his actions.

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9:56

Week 048 - First Age Friday: Yours Ye May Break

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/05

Join The Man of the West as we meet the best Elf ever, Finrod Felagund, and find him in quite the conundrum. Also, thanks a lot Fëanor.

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7:48

Week 048 - Third Age Thursday: Maybe We Shall Cleave...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/04

It’s time for another inspirational passage on Théoden, King of Rohan as The Man of the West continues reading his favorite moments in the life of a king who has left despair behind.

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6:17

Week 048 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Here We Come...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/03

Join The Man of the West for a dive into Old English as we look at some of the names and words from our Third Age Thursday readings about Théoden.

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8:06

Week 048 - Tolkien Tuesday: Stupidities and Vulgarities

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/02

You know that Professor Tolkien never minced words; now, so does Zimmerman. The Man of the West talks about some letters Tolkien wrote revealing his thoughts on an early adaptation.

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8:39

Week 048 - Mailbag Monday: Until the Rising of the Star

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/07/01

Join The Man of the West as he answers a question about inevitability, and speculates what might have happened to Turgon and the people of Gondolin had they only listened.

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9:24

Week 047 - Second Age Saturday: Breakers and Eaters

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/29

The noisy thing known as The Man of the West reads another passage in the tale of Aldarion and Erendis, as — surprise! — Aldarion doesn’t make it home when he said he would.

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9:59

Week 047 - First Age Friday: Terrible and Blasphemous

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/28

Some might say that describes The Man of the West, but thankfully Tolkien was speaking about the Oath of Fëanor and his sons, featured in this week’s reading from The Lay of Leithian.

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