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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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8:32

Week 044 - Tolkien Tuesday: Make #NotATrilogy Trend

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/04

We revisit the revised and updated edition of Tolkien’s Letters and learn Tolkien’s thoughts on piecemeal publication and patronizing reviews. Also, give the man a rest!

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10:44

Week 044 - Mailbag Monday: The Valar Already Know...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/03

Join The Man of the West as he begins week 44 of Today’s Tolkien Times by answering a question about the Valar’s knowledge: who would win Valerin Jeopardy?

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10:19

Week 043 - Second Age Saturday: And Hid Her Tears

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/06/01

We continue our reading through the sorrowful tale of Aldarion and Erendis, as the King’s Heir continues to be of two minds — and Erendis offers to wait one more time.

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8:59

Week 043 - First Age Friday: Love It Is Hath Here Me...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/31

Join The Man of the West as he continues his readings in The Lay of Leithian, this time as Lúthien brings Beren home for a chat — and Thingol has questions.

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8:40

Week 043 - Third Age Thursday: Well, That’s That

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/30

We return to Bag End and Gandalf’s chat with the disappearing Bilbo only to see the old hobbit do something no one has ever managed to do before.

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6:00

Week 043 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Gandalf, Formula 1,...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/29

Join The Man of the West for an interesting — if rather disturbing — exploration of word-nerdery as we look at a word used to describe Gandalf’s pestering of Bilbo.

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6:08

Week 043 - Tolkien Tuesday: There Will Be Not a Few

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/28

We continue in the Revised and Expanded edition of Tolkien’s Letters and learn that the Professor just couldn’t catch a break in the autumn of 1953.

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11:32

Week 043 - Mailbag Monday: Yes, With an If… No, With...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/27

Join The Man of the West as he starts week 43 of the TTT by quoting Reverend Lovejoy to answer a question about Fëanor. No, you read that correctly.

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8:11

Week 042 - Second Age Saturday: At War Within Himself

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/25

Join The Man of the West as he wraps up the first week of Series 6 of the TTT by continuing his reading through the story of Aldarion and Erendis. A time of peace and joy is short-lived as Aldarion once again is drawn to the Sea.

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10:16

Week 042 - First Age Friday: Of Living Love and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/24

The Man of the West has heard your pleas, and will return to the forests of Doriath for another series in The Lay of Leithian. Today’s episode features anguish, jealousy, and dancing lessons.

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8:05

Week 042 - Third Age Thursday: I Had to Badger You

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/23

There is no need to get angry: The Man of the West will continue the TTT’s readings in A Long-Expected Party. This time, Bilbo gets silly, while Gandalf speaks sternly.

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8:15

Week 042 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Greatest Delight...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/22

Stop and smell the Nísimaldar as The Man of the West dives into some word-nerdery from last season’s read-through of Aldarion and Erendis. Any excuse to read Quenya, right?

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7:53

Week 042 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sympathetic Review

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/21

We open up the Revised and Expanded edition of Tolkien’s Letters again this series, as we focus on new content about The Lord of the Rings. Today, deadlines and maps, reviews and illustrations — and Tolkien’s apparent disdain for italics.

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10:13

Week 042 - Mailbag Monday: Gandalf Was a Rollin’ Stone

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/20

Join The Man of the West as he begins Series 6 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a question about two very old people. And no, neither of them are The Man of the West. Also, memories of Bernard Hill as Théoden.

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9:06

Week 041 - Second Age Saturday: Now, And In All Nows

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/04

Erendis offers some words of wisdom; will Aldarion hear them? Join The Man of the West as he wraps up Series 6 of the TTT with one more passage from The Mariner’s Wife.

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9:36

Week 041 - First Age Friday: Soft a Kiss She Placed...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/03

It’s time for one more reading in The Lay of Leithian before we (hopefully) return to Fandom Fridays in Series 6. Poor Beren is going to have to wait awhile, but at least he has her kiss to remember.

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7:19

Week 041 - Third Age Thursday: Interfering Old Busybody

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/02

No, not The Man of the West: no one would call him busy. It’s time for the last reading of this Series in A Long-expected Party, as Bilbo and Gandalf chat about the hobbit’s plans.

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8:34

Week 041 - Word-nerd Wednesday: An Andoran Anthology

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/05/01

It’s time for a lingering look at a number of Númenórean names as we examine the etymology of… oh, I’m out of alliteration. Enjoy!

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6:02

Week 041 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nothing Godlike or...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/30

We continue our readings in Carpenter’s book, The Inklings, as we learn about C.S. Lewis’ good friend, Charles Williams — and what Tolkien thought of him, too.

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8:28

Week 041 - Mailbag Monday: Maybe It’s the...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/29

Join The Man of the West as he begins the final week of Series 5 of the TTT with a question about the Rings of Power and longevity. Or maybe it’s the Oil of Olwë?

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