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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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8:01

Week 037 - Third Age Thursday: Stop Even Pretending,...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/04

We return to Hobbiton just as preparations for a massive party are underway: we’re reminded of how important the postal service is, and get a glimpse of hobbit birthday traditions.

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6:22

Week 037 - Word-nerd Wednesday: What’s With the Fat...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/03

We take a closer look at nine different Shire family names in this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday and learn that the majority of them are based on hobbits ummm… enjoying their food.

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6:27

Week 037 - Tolkien Tuesday: Chiefly As a Poet

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/02

We return to learn more about Tolkien’s fellow Inkling, C.S. Lewis, and their mutual admiration for “Northernness”. Also, dragons can spoil commutes: just ask Eärendil.

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8:15

Week 037 - Mailbag Monday: Sure, It Kindles Hearts —...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/04/01

Join The Man of the West as he kicks off this week in appropriate style — then answers a question about Saruman’s hospitality towards his guest at Orthanc.

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8:14

Week 036 - Second Age Saturday: Sowed the Seeds of...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/30

Tar-Meneldur’s concerns were well-founded, as it turns out. Join The Man of the West for another reading in the tale of Aldarion and Erendis. Also: we finally, and briefly, meet Erendis.

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9:00

Week 036 - First Age Friday: Have Thy Pay!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/29

If you ever wondered just how cruel Sauron could be, today’s reading in The Lay of Leithian will answer that question.

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7:25

Week 036 - Third Age Thursday: We Could Do With a Bit...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/28

The Gaffer has words for Sandyman yet again, while outlandish folk pull into town — including one rather familiar old man with a long white beard and bushy eyebrows. No, not The Man of the West.

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6:09

Week 036 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Rebuking His...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/27

Sometimes, the Man of the West imagines his own impertinence would be rebuked, should the Professor be alive to do so. Fortunately, this was just a pedantic proof-reader who didn’t like Tolkien’s spelling.

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5:34

Week 036 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Thought I Was the Only One

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/26

Step into a meeting of the Kolbítar and learn why Lewis found it so invigorating. Also, talking about the gods and giants of Asgard until 2:30 in the morning… best college days ever.

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6:45

Week 036 - Mailbag Monday: Short-lived and Weaker Race

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/25

Join The Man of the West for a speculative question about Fëanor and what he might have thought about the race of Men — if he bothered to think about them at all.

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8:05

Week 035 - Second Age Saturday: But They Looked Far Away

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/23

Aldarion sails on his first voyage, and it changes his life — and the lives of people he hasn’t met yet. Meneldur observes the beginning of a problem, while Vëantur becomes an enabler.

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6:57

Week 035 - First Age Friday: Of Land Bereaved and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/22

We return to the beautiful verses of the Lay of Leithian, only to be reminded that they do not always describing things of beauty. Also: a glimpse of the First Age Dirty Dozen.

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7:05

Week 035 - Third Age Thursday: And Jools, By What...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/21

It’s time to eavesdrop at the Ivy Bush as the Gaffer tries to fact-check Sandyman and Old Noakes; where are Community Notes when you need them?

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7:21

Week 035 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ranugad Galbasi, the...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/20

The Man of the West digs through the Nomenclature and the Letters to learn more about the name of everyone’s favorite farmer.

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6:46

Week 035 - Tolkien Tuesday: Beer & Beowulf

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/19

We continue our chat about the Inklings and the “literature v. language” divide at Oxford. We ask Professor Tolkien how 1830 hurt his feelings.

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8:20

Week 035 - Mailbag Monday: I Like Big Boats and I...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/18

Join The Man of the West as he begins Week 35 with terrible puns and an unanswerable question about Shawn’s favorite mariner.

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8:14

Week 034 - Second Age Saturday: Ready to Mirth, and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/16

It’s a series filled with long tales, as The Man of the West shifts gears with the first series of Second Age Saturdays. Get your sea-legs on and prepare to set sail as we explore Aldarion & Erendis!

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7:32

Week 034 - First Age Friday: Laughter Merry as the...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/15

The Man of the West begins an epic series for this inaugural incarnation of First Age Fridays with a dive into The Lay of Leithian. Can you believe it’s not alliterative?

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8:58

Week 034 - Third Age Thursday: Like Coming Home

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/14

A long-expected run through a long-expected chapter begins today as tongues begin to wag in Hobbiton and Bywater. Which would you rather have: (apparently) perpetual youth, or (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth?

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7:28

Week 034 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Running Private Jokes

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/13

For today’s word-nerdery, the Man of the West brings in some of Dr. Tom Shippey’s finest, including an observation that Gandalf repeatedly ignores the social code. Also, Tolkien regrets French.

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