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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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8:16

Week 7 - Third Age Thursday: Bad Guys Always Have the...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/29

The Man of the West embraces his inner villain with a fun reading of his second-favorite dragon in Middle-earth, as he begins a two-part passage in The Hobbit.

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6:19

Week 7 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Archaic and Derogatory...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/28

In today’s Word-nerd Wednesday, The Man of the West looks at the RPG industry’s favorite legal word for hobbit: “halfling”. Also, I’m still looking for tickets to Once Upon a Time in Proto-Germanic.

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7:53

Week 7 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Very Bad Time Indeed

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/27

A closer look at the conversation between Tolkien and Unwin regarding a problem Tolkien hadn’t had before: titles for all three volumes. Also, the Book of Mazarbul and maps.

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6:23

Week 7 - Mailbag Monday: The State of the Show Address

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/26

The Man of the West starts out the week by answering some questions about Today’s Tolkien Times, including whether he’ll ever take time off or run out of stuff. Alliteration answers all.

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7:46

Week 6 - Silmarillion Saturday: SPBMI Explained

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/24

The Man of the West wraps up this week’s Today’s Tolkien Times by reading from the Ainulindalë in The Silmarillion and explaining that weird acronym he keeps on using.

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15:39

Week 6 - Fandom Friday: Magic Man, Magic Cards

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/23

The Obscure Lord of the Rings Facts Guy takes a few minutes away from TikTok to visit with The Man of the West on today’s Fandom Friday. And, with Magic: The Gathering’s LotR set dropping TODAY, who better to talk about it and show off some cards?

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7:47

Week 6 - Third Age Thursday: Namarië!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/22

The Man of the West concludes his time in Lórien by waving farewell to the Lord and Lady, and trying desperately to read Quenya like a boss. Diving into Tolkien’s notes helps us understand Galadriel’s Lament more deeply.

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6:04

Week 6 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Eald Enta Geweorc (Yes,...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/21

Trolls, ogres, and Ents, oh my. The Man of the West dives into Old English and Old Norse to pull together a couple of ENT-eresting words in this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday.

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6:49

Week 6 - Tolkien Tuesday: You Want HOW Much for That...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/20

The Man of the West continues to tell the story of how The Lord of the Rings finally got published: today, the issue of cost, and a decision by Rayner that I suspect he eventually regretted.

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8:26

Week 6 - Mailbag Monday: Mission:Impossible —...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/19

Today’s Tolkien Times begins its sixth week with a close look at all of Gollum’s options for escaping Moria and following the Company: windows, following the Orcs, public transport, rideshare?

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9:55

Week 5 - Silmarillion Saturday: Tuor Meets Ecthelion

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/17

The Man of the West returns to Unfinished Tales to complete the tale of Tour’s arrival to the Hidden Kingdom, as he meets Ecthelion, Lord of the Fountains. Tuor, that is — the Man of the West has never met Ecthelion.

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14:06

Week 5 - Fandom Friday: Silmarillieanne

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/16

The Man of the West welcome TikTok’s Silmarilleanne to Today’s Tolkien Times to chat about her lore videos, the Tolkien fandom, and cosplay — Star Trek might be mentioned.

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9:32

Week 5 - Third Age Thursday: The Gifts of Galadriel,...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/15

The Man of the West reads about Galadriel’s gift to Gimli, bringing to light a bit about Fëanor to help explain its significance. He also looks at her gift to Frodo, including the fastest version of the Eärendil story ever.

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5:34

Week 5 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Fellowship of Philology

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/14

Join The Man of the West as he dives into Old English and Old Norse to explore this week’s word: fellowship. Quick question: how many times does the text refer to the Company as “the Fellowship of the Ring”?

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7:09

Week 5 - Tolkien Tuesday: Don’t Drop the Ball

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/13

Tolkien is free to take The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion to another publisher: so what happened? How Collins dropped the ball for two years, as The Man of the West reads Carpenter’s biography to get more on the story.

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6:39

Week 5 - Mailbag Monday: Reading Order for All Things...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/12

Today’s Tolkien Times starts the week off with The Man of the West answering a question about the best order in which to read Tolkien: chronological, published, or only as I advise?

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10:58

Week 4 - Silmarillion Saturday: Tuor and the Orfalch...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/10

The Man of the West opens up Unfinished Tales for today’s Silmarillion Saturday, as we journey with Tuor through the first few gates of the Orfalch Echor!

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17:34

Week 4 - Fandom Friday: A Long-Expected Guest

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/09

Today’s Tolkien Times welcomes the composer, musician, and engineer behind the incredible project, A Long-Expected Soundscape: Jordan Rannells! For 25% off the entire 3-volume collection, use code PPP25 at checkout at https://jordanrannells.com/soundscapes or use PPP10 for 10% off one title.

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8:30

Week 4 - Third Age Thursday: The Gifts of Galadriel,...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/08

Today’s Third Age Thursday finds the Company on the banks of the Great River, drinking the cup of farewell with the Lord and Lady!

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6:01

Week 4 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Tracking Down a Ranger

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/07

Track down another word in the wilderness by using all your tracking and hunting skills — because this Word-nerd Wednesday is all about the ‘ranger’!

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