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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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10:03

Week 094 - Silmarillion Saturday: Their Roofless Grave

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/20

Join The Man of the West as he begins a new chapter on Silmarillion Saturdays, Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:37

Week 094 - First Age Friday: Blame Me Not

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/19

Week 094 - First Age Friday: Blame Me Not Voronwë echoes the words of the Man of the West, but sounds so much better doing it. He and Tuor get oh-so-close to the entrance to the Hidden Kingdom… in fact, I’d say this is the driveway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:31

Week 094 - Third Age Thursday: Treasure Without Price

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/18

At least you know the title isn’t referring to The Man of the West! Join him as we look at the fascinating story behind the two versions of the Elendilmir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:31

Week 094 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Sounds Like…

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/17

Join The Man of the West as he looks at more words from the chapter Of Maeglin, and decides to fill in the blanks for a name that Tolkien was was “meaningless then and now”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:06

Week 094 - Tolkien Tuesday: What Have Penguins Done...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/16

The Man of the West looks at some more of Tolkien’s letters, discovering that the Professor is overworked, criticizes Lewis’ “ponderous silliness”, and is not fond of puffins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:30

Week 094 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Huge Tracts of Land

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/15

Join The Man of the West as he goes inside the Rammas that we visited last week to see the wide tilth and many orchards of the Pelennor on another Middle-earth Map Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:00

Week 093 - Silmarillion Saturday: Knowing That He Was...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/13

Join The Man of the West for the tragic conclusion to the chapter Of Maeglin as Eöl does the unthinkable, Aredhel protects her son, and Maeglin’s desires lead him down a dark road.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:30

Week 093 - First Age Friday: Short is the Sight of...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/12

At least The Man of the West doesn’t have to do any curvature-of-the-earth calculations in this week’s reading in Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:31

Week 093 - Third Age Thursday: Yet to Earn It

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/11

Join The Man of the West for a deep dive into yet another Third Age Artifact in Middle-earth as we look at the nature and history of The Sceptre of Annúminas.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:54

Week 093 - Word-nerd Wednesday: An Aberration

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/10

The Man of the West fully recognizes his status, but the title actually refers to a possible mixup on Tolkien’s part! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:09

Week 093 - Tolkien Tuesday: Not Going Off Exactly as...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/09

Does the title reference episodes of Today’s Tolkien Times? Well, yes… but Tolkien is referring to the Swedish translation of The Lord of the Rings on this week’s Tolkien Tuesday!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:48

Week 093 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Ah, but Which...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/08

Join The Man of the West as he asks a question almost no one else would bother asking as we journey with Gandalf (and Pippin) as they pass the wall protecting the Fields of the Pelennor, the Rammas Echor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:47

Week 092 - Silmarillion Saturday: To Claim My Own

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/06

Join The Man of the West as Eöl proves he’s exactly who we’ve known him to be all along when he finally gets a chance to meet his brother-in-law, the King of Gondolin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:52

Week 092 - First Age Friday: Death Walks Between

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/05

Join The Man of the West as we journey with Tuor and Voronwë through the Vale of Sirion; Tuor wants to fight, Voronwë offers better advice, and Ulmo’s cloak saves the day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:41

Week 092 - Third Age Thursday: Touch It and Die

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/04

Aragorn has strong words for Háma, as The Man of the West continues his look at Third Age artifacts with a study of Andúril, née Narsil, and the Ring of Barahir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:33

Week 092 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Well, I’m Back

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/03

Join The Man of the West as we discover that Sam’s statement upon returning home is a lot easier to decipher than Voronwë’s Alae! Ered en Echoriath, ered embar nín! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:15

Week 092 - Tolkien Tuesday: Fauna of Mordor

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/02

It’s time to hear Tolkien tell us what he really thinks about cats (or a breed of them, perhaps) — as well as retirement, vacation, and publishing Gawain — in this week’s set of Letters on Tolkien Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:02

Week 092 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Stone for Food

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/09/01

Join The Man of the West as we continue our journeys in Anórien, stopping by the pine woods of the Drúadan Foreste, and walking the roads of Stonewain Valley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:21

Week 091 - Silmarillion Saturday: Knowing His Peril

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/08/30

Did you ever think Curufin would be a good guy? Yeah, me neither. Of course, the bar’s set pretty low today as he encounters Eöl on his way to seek Aredhel and Maeglin.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:14

Week 091 - First Age Friday: Only For a Moment

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2025/08/29

Join The Man of the West as Tuor and Voronwë discover the defilement of the springs of Ivrin, and spot a man with woe graven in his face. If only they’d spoken… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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