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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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9:38

Week 047 - Third Age Thursday: It Is Not So Dark Here

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/27

Join The Man of the West as he spends the final three Third Age Thursdays of the series reading his favorite passages on Théoden, King of Rohan.

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5:08

Week 047 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Friend, Enchantress,...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/26

It’s time for another exciting etymological excursion as The Man of the West looks at a name you’ve heard dozens of times and hopes to bring you something new.

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7:41

Week 047 - Tolkien Tuesday: Philological Harpies

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/25

It’s time for another visit to The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien as we see Tolkien’s growing frustration with the work of translators and the lack of time to work on The Silmarillion.

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9:39

Week 047 - Mailbag Monday: Very Unprolific

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/24

Join The Man of The West as he answers a question about Durin, Dwarven prophecy, and reincarnation with a deep dive into Tolkien’s early drafts.

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8:34

Week 046 - Second Age Saturday: No Place For Such Joy

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/22

Disappointment turns to bitterness in today’s reading of the story of Aldarion and Erendis. The king prefers the company of his sailors, and his wife prefers the company of women.

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9:03

Week 046 - First Age Friday: And Away, Away She Danced

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/21

Join The Man of the West as he continues reading the Lay of Leithian, as Lúthien gets clever and weaves her most powerful magic yet.

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8:02

Week 046 - Third Age Thursday: Which Story, I Wonder

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/20

Wonder no more as The Man of the West finishes our time reading through A Long-Expected Party as Gandalf leaves Frodo with some vague advice.

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6:57

Week 046 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Far Older and More...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/19

No, that title isn’t a description of The Man of the West. Join us for Word-nerd Wednesday as we take a closer look at the Shire-word that often just means “regifting”.

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9:04

Week 046 - Tolkien Tuesday: Bless the Little People!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/18

It’s time for Tolkien Tuesday as we dive deep into new content about The Silmarillion, Tolkien’s academic obligations, Middle-earth maps, book sales, and complaints about taxation.

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8:44

Week 046 - Mailbag Monday: Excuse Me, Sur

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/17

Join The Man of the West as he fails to answer a question for which there is no answer, then speculates what happens after an extended time-out.

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9:01

Week 045 - Second Age Saturday: A Man Long-sighted

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/15

Join The Man of the West for another reading in How Not to Build a Successful Marriage, as the sometimes-happy couple welcome their daughter, Ancalimë.

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11:24

Week 045 - First Age Friday: She Wanted a Treehouse…

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/14

When she was a kid, sure. Thingol continues his efforts to defeat Denethor as Best Father in the Legendarium in our next reading in The Lay of Leithian.

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9:11

Week 045 - Third Age Thursday: Fiddlesticks!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/13

Watch as Otho twirls his villainous mustache and laments how he might have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids. Or something like that.

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6:38

Week 045 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Númenórean Aramotherapy

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/12

Join The Man of the West for a look at the beautiful flowers that the Eldar brought to Númenor to celebrate Erendis’ wedding, including one that sounds very familiar.

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7:32

Week 045 - Tolkien Tuesday: At Whatever Cost of Sleep

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/11

Tolkien offers to pull an all-nighter to mark up print proofs in this week’s Tolkien Tuesday; so long as he still gets to Heathrow in time for his flight from the North Kingdom to Gondor.

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8:12

Week 045 - Mailbag Monday: And Therefore Stupid

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/10

Join The Man of the West as he speculates on whether Saruman and Sauron worked the same shift at ‘The Forge of Aulë: Miners, not Minors’. Also, if you think Sauron was smart, wait ’til you hear what Tolkien had to say.

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9:53

Week 044 - Second Age Saturday: Heart’s Ease

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/08

Aldarion returns to Erendis’ welcome, and the wedding of the century. The Eldar arrive with gifts and flowers, and all is as it should be. Finally. For now.

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8:04

Week 044 - First Age Friday: A Flower That Grows...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/07

We continue our readings in the Lay of Leithian as Beren faces off against Thingol in the halls of Menegroth. And still, no one listens to Melian.

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8:31

Week 044 - Third Age Thursday: Hearses at Daybreak

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/06

Join The Man of the West for another reading in A Long-Expected Party, this time as Frodo passes along Bilbo’s “messages” to a young social media influencer and a spoon thief.

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7:15

Week 044 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Maybe Thou Shalt Find...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/05

Time for another visit to our Second Age Saturday readings as The Man of the West explores three more words from Aldarion and Erendis.

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