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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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7:38

Week 040 - Second Age Saturday: Rather is She My Foe

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/27

Erendis makes her position quite clear, as she and Aldarion are reunited after his 14-year long journey. Aldarion appears to turn a new leaf, but will it stick?

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8:31

Week 040 - First Age Friday: Like a Silver Jewel Set...

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2024/04/26

We return for another long reading from The Lay of Leithian as Daeron the minstrel plays for the lovely Lúthien as she dances, and a rough-looking stranger comes stumbling onto the scene.

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7:17

Week 040 - Third Age Thursday: Why Worry? He Hasn’t...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/25

Old Rory Brandybuck has a point, after all. We return to the Long-expected Party just in time to see Bilbo disappear. Plus, what’s a party without a little regret?

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8:01

Week 040 - Word-nerd Wednesday: We Interrupt This...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/24

The Man of the West steps away from The Lord of the Rings for a week as we look at a place mentioned in the Second Age Saturday readings this series.

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8:36

Week 040 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Old ‘Dying God’ Story

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/23

We continue our time in Carpenter’s The Inklings and talk about Tolkien’s belief in the inherent truths of myth, and the effect his arguments had on Lewis.

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9:23

Week 040 - Mailbag Monday: And I Was Meant to Answer...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/22

Join The Man of the West as he starts week 40 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a question about what Gandalf knew, and when he knew it.

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7:11

Week 039 - Second Age Saturday: Unwilling To Be Bound

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/20

Aldarion manages to drive Erendis away from Armenolos even while he’s away for nearly 15 years. Just imagine what will happen when he returns.

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8:07

Week 039 - First Age Friday: Starlit Years On Earth...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/19

We all know that Thingol married up, but our time in The Lay of Leithian today really gives us some insight as to why. Also, we meet Daeron — forgotten harper, singer doomed.

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7:31

Week 039 - Third Age Thursday: Immensely Fond Of You All

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/18

True of Bilbo and his guests, as well as The Man of the West and his listeners. More time at A Long-expected Party, a discussion about fireworks and waistcoats, not to mention a very dangerous dance.

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5:26

Week 039 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Base 12 For the Win

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2024/04/17

It’s time to break out your Old English and even Old Norse as we look at Bilbo’s age of eleventy-one, and learn that abandoning the long hundred meant losing out on some cool numbers.

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7:02

Week 039 - Tolkien Tuesday: Things You Can Never Say...

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2024/04/16

We continue our study on the Inklings with a look at ‘The Great War’ between C.S. Lewis and Owen Barfield, as well as a stroll on Addison’s Walk.

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9:15

Week 039 - Mailbag Monday: What About Their LinkedIn...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/15

Join The Man of the West as he starts week 39 of the TTT with a question about the jobs of the five ‘chief’ wizards. Also: a follow-up on Fëanor confirms our suspicions: he’s still a jerk.

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8:13

Week 038 - Second Age Saturday: Amid the Coldness of...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/13

It’s time for the continuing adventures of Aldarion as he finally has eyes for Erendis. As he sails off for distant shores. Plus, the Green Bough of Return and more beautiful names of trees!

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7:42

Week 038 - First Age Friday: Or Flee the Land of Barahir

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2024/04/12

Beren is really good at killing Orcs and other bad guys; maybe too good. Join The Man of the West for his continued readings through The Lay of Leithian, as Beren finally heads south.

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9:45

Week 038 - Third Age Thursday: The Art of Gandalf...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/11

Let us all hope that the art of The Man of the West does the same. Join him today for our continuing read through A Long-Expected Party, this time with fireworks and even more food!

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5:34

Week 038 - Word-nerd Wednesday: I Don’t Think It...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/10

Well, actually, it does — but it also means a half-dozen other things or so. Join The Man of the West for a look at a word that has offended the Sackville-Bagginses. Also, Gloin says Bilbo looks like a dealer.

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7:16

Week 038 - Tolkien Tuesday: Frightful 18th Century!!!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/09

Don’t blame me: the punctuation is in the original. Time for another close look at the budding friendship between C.S. Lewis and Tolkien; so long as the former doesn’t keep making terrible poetry suggestions.

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7:34

Week 038 - Mailbag Monday: Not the Family Reunion...

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2024/04/08

Join The Man of the West as he starts the week off talking about one of his favorite characters in the legendarium. And his unfortunate cousin.

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9:18

Week 037 - Second Age Saturday: Cold is the Life of a...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/06

So, Aldarion: maybe, I don’t know, stop being a mariner? We continue with the tale of Aldarion and Erendis, the former of whom is beginning to show some troubling traits.

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8:35

Week 037 - First Age Friday: Of Will Defeated, Broken...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/05

We return to the tale of Beren as Gorlim visits him in a dream, and he returns to utter devastation. A vow of vengeance follows, and one bad guy definitely gets what’s coming to him.

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