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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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9:43

Week 10 - Silmarillion Saturday: Thrall of the Valar

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/08/05

Join The Man of the West as he continues Húrin’s tale after his capture by Morgoth. You think it was brave to fight an endless horde of Orcs? Try facing off against the mightiest being in Arda.

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14:08

Week 10 - Fandom Friday: Teaching With Magic

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/08/04

The Man of the West is joined by Elise Trudel Cedeño from Teaching With Magic, who has cleverly found a way to use Tolkien — and other fantasy literature — as a teaching tool.

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8:23

Week 10 - Third Age Thursday: No Good Roastin’ ‘Em Now

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/08/03

The talking purse is off discussing his future with his agent while the trolls continue to fight — and capture dwarves. The fight continues until dawn as Bert, Tom, and William eventually get uh, stoned.

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5:41

Week 10 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Melodramatic Chestnuts

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/08/02

The Man of the West visits Turkey, Greece, and a 19th century Boston theater to find out the meaning of a word we all thought we already knew.

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7:16

Week 10 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Great Deal Better Than I...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/08/01

Tolkien loves the new dust jackets, is pleasantly surprised by the reviews, and stands by C.S. Lewis. The Man of the West reads the 1954 equivalent of ‘mean tweets’ and finds some good ones, too.

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8:10

Week 10 - Mailbag Monday: The Other Shelves of the West

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/31

The Man of the West starts a new week of Today’s Tolkien Times by visiting the second half of The Shelves of the West!

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14:25

Week 9 - Silmarillion Saturday: Aurë Entuluva!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/29

Indeed, day will come again — but it may be a long time before our featured character feels anything but darkness. Join The Man of the West as he reads Húrin’s Last Stand from The Silmarillion.

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14:37

Week 9 - Fandom Friday: The Silmarillion Primer and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/28

The Man of the West welcomes writer, editor, and Dungeon Master extraordinare Jeff LaSala to the TTT to talk about the publication of his Silmarillion Primer.If you want more details about the Primer, check out https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/press/work/silmprimer/. Art credit for the cover belongs to David Delagardelle.

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8:24

Week 9 - Third Age Thursday: Not Drawing-Room Fashion...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/27

Join The Man of the West for more villain dialog — this time from everyone’s three favorite trolls: Bert, Tom, and Bill. And don’t forget the talking purse!

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5:19

Week 9 - Word-nerd Wednesday: “Confusticate and...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/26

The Man of the West opens up the OED and The Ring of Words to help shed light on these fantastically descriptive words from The Hobbit.

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7:23

Week 9 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Wisely Started With a Map

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/25

Tolkien explains the importance of cartography, expresses fears about hack critics, returns some. very ugly dust-jacket proofs, and promises to not become like Mr. Toad.

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7:10

Week 9 - Mailbag Monday: The Shelves of the West

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/24

The Man of the West opens this new series of Today’s Tolkien Times by answering the most-asked question so far on the TTT: can you show us your library? The answer is yes, but not quickly!

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9:03

Week 8 - Silmarillion Saturday: Trouble in Paradise

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/08

The Man of the West wraps up the first 8-week series of Today’s Tolkien Times by finishing the story of Aulë and Yavanna. Now that the Dwarves are a done deal, what does Aulë’s wife think?

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14:20

Week 8 - Fandom Friday: ArdaCraft — Recreating...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/07

The Man of the West is joined by Fornad, the project lead for ArdaCraft, a truly massive project creating the whole of Middle-earth in Minecraft!

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8:35

Week 8 - Third Age Thursday: Antiquated Information

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/06

We rejoin Bilbo as he wraps up his chat with Smaug: something he should have done with four fewer words. But it’s not all bad: he’s caught Smaug monologuing!

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6:03

Week 8 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Bane of My Existence

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/05

A quick study of lingustic dilution: or how Modern English has taken a word meaning “a worker of death” and turned it into a word meaning “that’s annoying”. The Man of the West likely butchers multiple languages in today’s episode, but he’s trying.

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9:12

Week 8 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Real Snorter

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/04

Alan wraps up this first series’ Tolkien Tuesdays with a last look at the pre-publication challenges Tolkien faced with The Lord of the Rings. Titles, maps, spoilers, and hobbit hospitality.

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7:56

Week 8 - Mailbag Monday: Dragon Logistics

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/03

The Man of the West begins the week with a question about how Smaug might transport treasure. Claws like spears, sure… but what about opposable thumbs? Also, Monty Python. Because.

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8:28

Week 7 - Silmarillion Saturday: Aulë, You’re Grounded

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/07/01

The Man of the West wraps up this week of Today’s Tolkien Times by beginning a two-part look at one of his favorite tales in The Silmarillion: Of Aulë and Yavanna. Can’t keep a secret from Ilúvatar.

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12:46

Week 7 - Fandom Friday: Is There Really a Dwarf of...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/30

The Man of the West welcome Varking Runesong to Today’s Tolkien Times to chat about Rings of Power, Reddit, and building community everywhere we go, in another installment of Fandom Friday.

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