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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 098 - Tolkien Tuesday: Presumptuous Impertinence

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/04

Often presumptuous, sometimes impertinent, but rarely both: The Man of the West continues his look at the beef between Tolkien and the Swedish translator of The Lord of the Rings.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:37

Week 098 - Middle-earth Map Monday: How about...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/03

Join The Man of the West as he begins Week 98 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a look at the port that keeps Minas Tirith going, the Harlond — and one more place of supreme strategic importance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:17

Week 097 - Silmarillion Saturday: Great Was the...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/11/01

The sound of PPP and TTT fans when The Man of the West retires? Ha! Join Alan as Fingolfin meets his fate with courage, and Morgoth gets an owie he can’t fix.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:03

Week 097 - First Age Friday: No Escape… and No Returning

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/31

We continue our journey with Tuor and Voronwë as they make their way from the First Gate up the Orfalch Echor with their guard guide, Elemmakil.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:14

Week 097 - Third Age Thursday: Minds Filled with Hatred

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/30

Join The Man of the West as we begin a long look at another group of Men of Darkness; from Bór and Ulfang’s arrival in the First Age, the Easterlings and Edain have had a long history of conflict.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:39

Week 097 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Maybe Avoid the Fen...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/29

Join The Man of the West as he practically sprints through ten place names from our Silmarillion Saturday readings about the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:01

Week 097 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Should Make Him Apologize

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/28

The Man of the West is genuinely sorry; fortunately, Tolkien is talking about a Swedish interpreter of The Lord of the Rings instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:46

Week 097 - Middle-earth Map Monday: I Like Big Butteries

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/27

Join The Man of the West as he relives a Philology Faire of the past while walking you through the rest of the City of Minas Tirith: the Hall of Feasts, Rath Dínen, stables, barracks, and yes, the buttery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:38

Week 096 - Silmarillion Saturday: And Morgoth Came

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/25

The war goes badly for the Noldor, and Fingolfin finds himself knocking on the door of the most powerful being in Middle-earth as we continue our readings in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the (spoilers) Fall of Fingolfin.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:25

Week 096 - First Age Friday: I Should Slay Him

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/24

Thankfully, nothing to do with The Man of the West in this title: just an acknowledgement that Voronwë has put his old friend in a hard spot as we continue our readings in Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:43

Week 096 - Third Age Thursday: Men of Twilight and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/23

Join The Man of the West as he begins a dive into a new topic on Third Age Thursdays looking at different cultures of the race of Men in the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:20

Week 096 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Fëanor Felt Aggrieved

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/22

What else is new, right? Join The Man of the West for a deep dive into the name of the first High King of the Noldor and a few other words from our recent Silmarillion Saturday readings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:06

Week 096 - Tolkien Tuesday: Simple-Minded Folk (Like...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/21

Join The Man of the West as we continue our look into Tolkien’s letters and discover just how badly the Professor was irritated by a Swedish translator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:33

Week 096 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Falling Year by...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/10/20

Yet another episode title that could be a quote from the text, or a reference to The Man of the West. Join Alan as he starts Series 13 of Today’s Tolkien Times by continuing his deep dive into the City of Minas Tirith! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:22

Week 095 - Silmarillion Saturday: All Aboard the...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/27

Choo-choo. Join The Man of the West as we discuss just how many balrogs there might have been on the southbound train from Angband and point out how Barahir’s rescue of Finrod really saved all of Middle-earth. Thanks for joining the TTT for Series 12 — we’ll be back again after a short break!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:23

Week 095 - First Age Friday: Forgotten In My Own Land

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/26

There’s always a title that could be read as applying to The Man of the West — but this is just Voronwë trying to make sure he and Tuor don’t get killed… or at least not yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:26

Week 095 - Third Age Thursday: A Token of Hope

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/25

Join The Man of the West for an in-depth look at the original Elessar, and the two backstories of the one given to Aragorn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:54

Week 095 - Word-nerd Wednesday: But Wait, There’s More

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/24

More names from Of Maeglin in this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday, including the names of Turgon’s wife and daughter — and of a Dwarven hall that’s got a familiar name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:16

Week 095 - Tolkien Tuesday: Neither ‘Foolhardy’ Nor...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/23

The Man of the West isn’t German either, but he might not have much to say on the ‘foolhardy’ front. Join him as we take a look at Tolkien’s surname and read more on C.S. Lewis and his misspelling of Númenor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:11

Week 095 - Middle-earth Map Monday: A Thousand Feet...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/22

Join The Man of the West as he begins the last week of Series 12 with a Middle-earth Map Monday exploring the City of Minas Tirith! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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