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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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6:09

Week 034 - Tolkien Tuesday: Liberal Studies Majors,...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/12

We take a break from the Letters in Series 5 of the TTT to spend some time at the Bird & Baby with Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and more as we learn about the Inklings. Also, 200 episodes of the TTT!

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8:15

Week 034 - Mailbag Monday: Maybe He Left the Oven On?

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/03/11

Join The Man of the West as he starts out Series 5 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a Mailbag Monday asking a question we honestly haven’t heard before. Also, a reminder of Fëanor being Fëanor.

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8:53

Week 033 - Silmarillion Saturday: Never Drinking That...

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2024/02/24

We return to the halls of Menegroth as Angrod throws Fëanor under the bus, Thingol counts to ten, an entire language nopes right out of there, and Galadriel gets nosy.

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15:21

Week 033 - Fandom Friday: The Executive Board of Team...

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2024/02/23

Join The Man of the West as he welcomes Miranda, the self-proclaimed CEO of Team Faramir to chat about her Tolkien Tuesday videos on Instagram, read-alongs on Discord, and a terrifying trivia contest to come.

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10:02

Week 033 - Third Age Thursday: Felt the Need of Wisdom

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2024/02/22

It’s time to finish our 8-week journey through the story Of Cirion and Eorl as we Eorl and Cirion part for a time. Also, we look at The Tradition of Isildur: no, not refusing to listen to Elrond… that’s not a tradition.

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7:28

Week 033 - Word-nerd Wednesday: It Presents Me With...

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2024/02/21

Time to take a look at what the Rohirrim really called themselves after the Oath of Cirion and Eorl. Also, let’s look at éowords* because éoreds and éoherë are éoawesome* (* - not real words.)

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7:35

Week 033 - Tolkien Tuesday: No Pubs Lately

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/20

Lift up your heart! And spend one last week in the Revised and Expanded edition of Tolkien’s letters as we look at five shorter letters written to Christopher Tolkien over two months in 1943.

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7:17

Week 033 - Mailbag Monday: Who’s Buried in Elendil’s...

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2024/02/19

Join The Man of the West as he starts the last week of TTT’s Series 4 with a question about the beacon on Halifirien — wouldn’t it disturb Elendil’s eternal slumber?

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7:59

Week 032 - Silmarillion Saturday: Literally red-handed

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/17

The Man of the West continues his read-through and discussion of the chapter Of the Noldor in Beleriand as Thingol hears, but once again doesn’t really listen to, Melian. Also, great-uncles can be mean!

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13:16

Week 032 - Fandom Friday: What a Lovely Smial

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/16

The Man of the West invites the founders of The Grey Havens smial of The Tolkien Society to come and talk about creating and sustaining small regional groups of Tolkien fans.

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10:49

Week 032 - Third Age Thursday: Enyalië!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/15

We finally learn just why the Halifirien is so hali, and why the Whispering Wood, uh, whispers. Get ready for some gorgeous Quenya as Cirion and Eorl speak their pinky promise.

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8:36

Week 032 - Word-nerd Wednesday: What About Frosty the...

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2024/02/14

Join The Man of the West for a deep dive into a beautiful Quenya oath that unexpectedly leads to a (very bad) idea for our next Christmas break.

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8:06

Week 032 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Red Admiral

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/13

This week, we take a look at more letters from The Professor to his sons Michael and Christopher, including one that talks about a man who has almost as many names as Aragorn and Túrin!

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11:40

Week 032 - Mailbag Monday: The Nakedest Dragonet

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/12

No, that’s not the title of the next Train Your Dragon film. Join The Man of the West as he tries to answer yet another question that has no answer: what is the origin of Tolkien’s dragons?

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7:37

Week 031 - Silmarillion Saturday: For That Woe is Past

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/10

I’m not sure Melian shares Galadriel’s optimism on that point. Join The Man of the West as we read more in Of the Noldor in Beleriand and join Melian in asking, “What are the Noldor hiding, and why is it Fëanor?”

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21:57

Week 031 - Fandom Friday: Not Jealous At All, At All...

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2024/02/09

The Man of the West is reminded of just how awesome the J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript exhibit was as he visits with its curators. He also wonders if a career as a Tolkien academic is still possible at his advanced age.

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10:32

Week 031 - Third Age Thursday: As True Men

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/08

The Man of the West continues his reading and discussion of the tale of Cirion and Eorl, this week as the two climb the Hill of Awe. What do you get the man who gives you an entire country?

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6:17

Week 031 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Knows No Season and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/07

Why are we going back to Tuor to discuss a word from Cirion and Eorl? Because we can. Join The Man of the West as he looks closely at some, ahem, flowery language.

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8:20

Week 031 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Sum Total of Last...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/06

The revised and expanded edition of Letters continues to provide wonderful insight into Tolkien and his relationship with his sons. Today, three short letters to Christopher that remind us of the reality of the Blitz, and the importance of remembering birthdays.

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9:45

Week 031 - Mailbag Monday: Aren’t You a Little...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/02/05

Join The Man of the West as he attempts to answer an unanswerable question about the Goblins of the Misty Mountains and their recognition of important artifacts in their cultural history. Or something like that.

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