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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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10:23

Week 110 - Tolkien Tuesday: Insoluble Metrical Problems

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/17

Tolkien admits to a bit of poetic masochism in a letter to his aunt Jane, as The Man of the West continues his look through the Revised and Expanded edition of Tolkien’s Letters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:21

Week 110 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The End of Gondor

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/16

Join The Man of the West as we reach the far shores and conclude our 21-week journey through the regions of Gondor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:40

Week 109 - Silmarillion Saturday: The First Evil

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/14

Join The Man of the West as we accompany a now-free Húrin from Angband to his homelands and then on as he looks for mercy from Turgon.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:24

Week 109 - First Age Friday: You Lie

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/13

Not you, sorry — Morgoth. At least that’s Húrin’s opinion as he continues his defiance of the Dark Lord in this week’s First Age Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:15

Week 109 - Third Age Thursday: A Bulwark of Gondor

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/12

We continue our study of the Men of Middle-earth, this time looking at the ancestors of the Rohirrim, known early on as the Northmen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:39

Week 109 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ló and Behold

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/11

Join The Man of the West as he looks at the etymology of a few more of the rivers and towns in Gondor, continuing our journey west through the land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:35

Week 109 - Tolkien Tuesday: The ‘Fan Mail’ Keeps On...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/10

And now you know the title isn’t a reference to The Man of the West! Join Alan as he begins a two-part look at another letter Tolkien wrote to his aunt, Jane Neave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:16

Week 109 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Angbor the Fearless

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/09

Join The Man of the West as he continues his journey through Gondor, looking at Lamedon, the Morthond Vale, and the uniquely-named ridge that separates the two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:36

Week 108 - Silmarillion Saturday: Hardly Better Than...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/07

Famously not what The Man of the West says about people who don’t listen to the PPP or TTT. Instead, it’s Húrin’s opinion of the Men new to his part of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:30

Week 108 - First Age Friday: Time That Yet Lay Hidden

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/06

Join The Man of the West as we finish Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and begin to pull all the strings together to lead us to Eärendil and the War of Wrath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:18

Week 108 - Third Age Thursday: Middle Man, Not Middle...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/05

Anyone can be a mid-level supervisor; it takes someone special to be a Middle Man — or does it? Join The Man of the West as he takes a closer look at Men of the Twilight (no vampires or werewolves involved). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:52

Week 108 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Let x Be the Number...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/04

Join The Man of the West as we visit yet another land named solely after the number of rivers within it on this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:05

Week 108 - Tolkien Tuesday: At Least as Capacious as...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/03

The size of your waste paper basket doesn’t really matter; after all, you know you’re not throwing away a letter from Tolkien, even if it is long and pedantic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:16

Week 108 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Independent...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/02

Join The Man of the West in his journeys…um, west… through the southern fiefs of Gondor, as he looks more closely at the home of Imrahil known as Dol Amroth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:01

Week 107 - Silmarillion Saturday: Bereft of Their...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/31

Some might say it’s a tragedy; others might say it’s about time. We look at the aftermath of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and begin to tie this story together with the months-long journey we took with Tuor.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:15

Week 107 - First Age Friday: Aurë entuluva! Day Shall...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/30

The Battle of Unnumbered Tears lives up to its name in spectacular fashion as Fingon meets his gruesome end and the Men of Dor-lómin lay down their lives to protect the secrecy of Gondolin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:35

Week 107 - Third Age Thursday: Fierce Folk When Roused

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/29

The Man of the West finishes his long look at the Men of Darkness with the Dunlendings, a group of Men that might be better called Middle Men gone wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:17

Week 107 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Better Late Than…...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/28

Join The Man of the West as he finishes off the last of the Five Rivers of Lebennin before discovering what Imrahil and Pippin have in common. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:35

Week 107 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Feel Inclined to Tell...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/27

We’re sure you do, Professor — and we hope you did! Join The Man of the West as the Professor calls himself — accurately — a natural niggler. Also, a bottle of the Old Winyards? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:03

Week 107 - Middle-earth Map Monday: About That...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/26

Join The Man of the West for a look at Pelargir throughout the ages, before we move into Belfalas and the realm of the Prince of Dol Amroth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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