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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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9:21

Week 027 - Third Age Thursday: Which None Could Then...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/01/11

It’s time to continue our readings in the story of Cirion and Eorl, even if we’re still at the part of Calimehtar and Marhwini. At least Cirion and Eorl are easier to pronounce.

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5:20

Week 027 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The (Great) Green Region

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/01/10

We have time for two words on this Word-nerd Wednesday: the first is the name of the 30th King of Gondor, and the other is the name of a land that would eventually be gifted to the people of the Éothéod.

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6:49

Week 027 - Tolkien Tuesday: Hi Dad, Send Cash

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/01/09

We take a look at three letters that Tolkien wrote to his sons: school grades, mom guilt, BBC criticism, a hand injury, and a plea for cash to a poor professor all feature in today’s Tolkien Tuesday!

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6:59

Week 027 - Mailbag Monday: Gandalf as a Dwarf?

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/01/08

Join The Man of the West as he answers a speculative question about the form that the wizards took when they came to Middle-earth. Now I’m picturing Radagast as a hobbit.

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6:37

Week 026 - Silmarillion Saturday: Dust Off the Piñata

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/01/06

A study of heavenly bodies begins with the aftermath of Fëanor storming out of the house, slamming the door, stealing the neighbor’s car, and peeling out of the driveway. Also, Manwë borrows a page from Nienna’s playbook and needs a tissue.

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13:18

Week 026 - Fandom Friday: The Full English: Chris...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/01/05

Join The Man of the West as he welcomes fellow bibliophile and Tolkien fan Chris Newton, and learn about a new podcast you might want to listen to. Chris earns extra points for a ‘core of the original’ reference in an episode blurb.

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6:58

Week 026 - Third Age Thursday: And You Thought You’d...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/01/04

The Man of the West wanted to make a joke here about the Émo-théod and why their early names were Goth-ic, but we talked him out of it. We apologize for the fault in the blurb. Those responsible have been sacked.

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4:55

Week 026 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Because...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/01/03

Get ready for some Old English as we take a look at the Éothéod and one of their lords, Eorl the Young in the first Word-nerd Wednesday of 2024.

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4:19

Week 026 - Tolkien Tuesday: All That Over a Comma

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/01/02

It’s time for The Man of the West to open the new Revised and Expanded Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien as we begin a new series of Tolkien Tuesday episodes! Learn why it’s always good to save your file versions.

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7:49

Week 026 - Mailbag Monday: Something About Rope

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2024/01/01

Join The Man of the West as he rings in 2024 with a new series of Today’s Tolkien Times! We start with a mailbag question about Sam’s mysteriously disappearing brothers, and his two sisters, both called Miss-Not-Appearing-In-This-Book.

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6:13

Week 025 - Fancy a Game of Snapdragons?

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/12/23

Tolkien brings in more real-world events — a really cold winter, and a bright comet — into his Letters From Father Christmas, while NPB is busy getting the Man in the Moon drunk. Also, Merry Christmas from the TTT!

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4:58

Week 025 - Rory Bory Aylis

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/12/22

The Man of the West introduces a new term for the Aurora Borealis, as he looks at Tolkien’s 1926 Letter From Father Christmas. North Polar Bear is up to his usual mischief, and the reindeer break loose. Also, the Man in the Moon is badly injured — but it’s nothing chocolate can’t fix.

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5:07

Week 025 - Dreadfully Busy

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/12/21

No, really, he means it. Father Christmas is busy, and so is Professor Tolkien, as Christmas of 1925 approaches. Holding down two jobs, writing the beginnings of Middle-earth mythology, moving house, and being the father to three boys ages 8, 5, and 1. Whew, I’m tired just writing that.

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5:36

Week 025 - A Letter for the LEGO Fans

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/12/20

We move to 1923 and a letter to a new address in Leeds, before looking at just how old Father Christmas really is. Also, when is a brick not a brick?

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4:30

Week 025 - Dramatis Personae

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/12/19

Let’s start at the very beginning: it’s a very good place to start, after all. It’s time to open up the Introduction to the Letters and learn about the growing crew up at the North Pole, before we start with the first letter, written in 1920.

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6:29

Week 025 - Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/12/18

Join The Man of the West for a very special holiday week of Today’s Tolkien Times as he dives into Letters From Father Christmas, beginning with words from Baillie Tolkien, Christopher’s wife and the editor of the Letters volumes. Resource links:https://wayneandchristina.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/the-father-christmas-letters-4/https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=Letters%20From%20Father%20Christmas

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8:05

Week 024 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Elves Know Not

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/25

Men are mortal, and so is Series 3 of Today’s Tolkien Times! Join The Man of the West as he wraps things up (mostly) for 2023 with a look at the difference between Elves and Men — including a glimpse at an early version from The Book of Lost Tales.

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15:47

Week 024 - Fandom Friday: Time Flies When Your Book...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/24

You’ve enjoyed eight weeks of excerpts from his book, Tolkien and the Great War, so please welcome John Garth to Today’s Tolkien Times, as we celebrate 20 years since the publication of his award-winning biography! Plus insights on his new book — Tolkien’s Mirror — and how you can help get it published sooner.

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7:26

Week 024 - Third Age Thursday: Look After Your Darling

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/23

To those celebrating, the TTT wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving! Join The Man of the West as he finishes up The Quest of Erebor and discovers the softer side of Gandalf, and why all of Middle-earth is thankful for a chance-meeting in Bree.

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5:46

Week 024 - Word-nerd Wednesday: What Do Fëanor and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/22

We’ll let Gandalf explore the dungeons of Dol Guldur; The Man of the West will explore its etymology. Observe his shocked face as he learns the connection between the Noldor and dark sorcery.

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