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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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6:52

Week 024 - Tolkien Tuesday: Pipe-smoking and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/21

Like so many other students before him, Tolkien wasn’t always entirely dedicated to his academic pursuits. Join The Man of the West as he revisits John Garth’s Tolkien and the Great War one more time to learn about Tolkien’s ‘pure alpha’ and the major change in his, uh, major.Be sure to visit John Garth's website at https://johngarth.co.uk to learn and read more about his incredible Tolkien work and scholarship. You can also buy Tolkien and the Great War on audiobook, narrated exceptionally well by

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9:39

Week 024 - Mailbag Monday: Linked In, Middle-earth

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/20

Join The Man of the West as he begins the last week of Series 3 of the TTT with an update for the holidays before he answers an interesting question about employment opportunities in Middle-earth. Polish up those resumes, folks!

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6:12

Week 023 - Silmarillion Saturday: Where Every Leaf is...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/18

I’m sure it won’t stay that way, though. Join The Man of the West as he concludes this week of the TTT by reading the first half of the chapter Of Men. Distant Valar, condescending Elves, and Morgoth on the loose: the Men will be just fiiiiiine.

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25:43

Week 023 - Fandom Friday: The Tolkien Professor

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/17

Sometimes, the big voices in the fandom have things to say too — Alan welcomes the OG Tolkien podcaster, Dr. Corey Olsen to the show to talk about all things Signum, and to put him in charge of Amazon’s marketing for Rings of Power.

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7:21

Week 023 - Third Age Thursday: He Was Getting Greedy...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/16

No, not The Man of the West — well at least not both of them — Bilbo! Gandalf recalls just how disappointing Bilbo was in the second part of The Quest of Erebor. Also, keep old maps and keys for 95 years, just in case.

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7:02

Week 023 - Word-nerd Wednesday: (The Rest of) The...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/15

The Man of the West returns to his wizardy wording ways this week as he brings you more of the names of Gandalf — and fills in a few unintended blanks on one of last week’s names!

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7:07

Week 023 - Tolkien Tuesday: Time For You To Go, George

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/14

We join Tolkien on his winter break as he writes and stars in his own play that just might bear some similarities to real-life. He is finally allowed to write to Edith and the results are… not what you’d expect. Give it up for poor George.Be sure to visit John Garth's website at https://johngarth.co.uk to learn and read more about his incredible Tolkien work and scholarship. You can also buy Tolkien and the Great War on audiobook, narrated exceptionally well by John himself. I'm proud to support

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13:28

Week 023 - Mailbag Monday: Not a David Letterman Top 10

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/13

Join The Man of the West as he begins week 23 with a list of the top 10 scariest or creepiest creatures in Middle-earth, just in time for… two weeks after Halloween. You’ll never guess what #5 is!

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6:23

Week 022 - Silmarillion Saturday: I Think You Know...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/11

Melkor hides, fakes friendship, almost persuades Fëanor, goes too far, but manages to understand thralldom better than Fëanor. Also, Tulkas is thinking, “I told you this would happen.”

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25:44

Week 022 - Fandom Friday: A Love of Letters — Phil...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/10

The Man of the West talks about the new Letters volume — and a massive Guide to even more Letters — with Phil Walch from Tolkien Collector’s Guide. The Man of the West may still be counting the number of Tolkien Tuesdays he’ll get from the new volume!

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6:38

Week 022 - Third Age Thursday: Brooding On His Wrongs

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/09

Join Gandalf — and the Man of the West — as he relates his own take on “the incident with the dragon” in The Quest of Erebor. From Gandalf’s grand strategy to how seriously Dwarves take their duty, we also get a teaser about our old friend, Bilbo.

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7:12

Week 022 - Word-nerd Wednesday: (Some of) The Many...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/08

It’s a wizardy Wednesday as The Man of the West begins his exploration of several — but not all — of the names of everyone’s favorite Middle-earth wizard. No, it’s not that blue guy.

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6:24

Week 022 - Tolkien Tuesday: An Assault on Finnish

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/07

The Man of the West combines the best of Carpenter and Garth to talk about Tolkien in 1912: from his wet and windy cavalry camp, to his discovery of a wine-cellar that intoxicated him… and led directly to the Quenya language.Be sure to visit John Garth's website at https://johngarth.co.uk to learn and read more about his incredible Tolkien work and scholarship. You can also buy Tolkien and the Great War on audiobook, narrated exceptionally well by John himself. I'm proud to support John's work and

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8:34

Week 022 - Mailbag Monday: No, YOU Be the Mortal One

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/06

The Man of the West opens up the mailbag this week with a speculative question: what happens to the kingship of Gondor if Aragorn dies at the Black Gate? Well, I don’t know about the kingship of Gondor, but Arwen is not going to be happy about this.

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9:04

Week 021 - Silmarillion Saturday: Master of Thralls

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/04

Okay, so it’s a great name for a metal album, but it’s also a theme in today’s Silmarillion Saturday, as Fëanor threatens his younger brother, and gets a 12-year time out for it. Then again, if you’re an Elf, what’s 12 years, really?

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23:04

Week 021 - Fandom Friday: Silmaremily: At the...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/03

In what is likely to be the only mention of Taylor Swift on Today’s Tolkien Times, The Man of the West welcomes Silmaremily to Fandom Friday for a wide-ranging talk that (finally) includes some thoughts on Amazon’s The Rings of Power.

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8:56

Week 021 - Third Age Thursday: No Queen in Gondor

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/02

Gandalf explains just how important those “off screen” battles were at the end of the Third Age, as The Man of the West finally concludes his reading in the Appendices on Durin’s Folk, wrapping up with a beautiful example of friendship featuring Legolas and Gimli.

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4:19

Week 021 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Surprise - the...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/11/01

Today’s Word-nerd Wednesday takes a look at the name of the river separating the Shire from those weird folk in Buckland: the Brandywine. Is it a pun? Is it a corrupted pronunciation? Is it Dutch? Yes, the answer is yes.

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7:25

Week 021 - Tolkien Tuesday: Certain Among the Gods

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/10/31

Happy Halloween to all the TTT followers — but there’s nothing spooky about today’s Tolkien Tuesday, unless Tolkien “revisiting old haunts” counts. Today, we take a short break from John Garth’s Tolkien and the Great War to revisit Carpenter’s biography to learn about Tolkien’s own Mrs. Doubtfire moment.Be sure to visit John Garth's website at https://johngarth.co.uk to learn and read more about his incredible Tolkien work and scholarship. You can also buy Tolkien and the Great War on audiobook,

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9:49

Week 021 - Mailbag Monday: Past Their Expiration Date

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/10/30

The Man of the West starts off week 21 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a question about everyone’s favorite equestrian group: the Black Riders. Specifically, what happens to them after the One Ring is destroyed?

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