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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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6:49

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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7:12

Week 4 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Professor’s Ultimatum

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/06

It is 1950, and Tolkien is growing ever more frustrated with Rayner Unwin, thinking that he has another publisher ready to publish The Silmarillion on this week’s Tolkien Tuesday.

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7:58

Week 4 - Mailbag Monday: When Was the Rammas Echor...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/05

The Man of the West starts the week with Mailbag Monday and a question about the wall surrounding the Pelennor Fields: when was it built, and who was the steward who built it?

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7:26

Week 3 - Silmarillion Saturday: When the Lights Go...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/03

The city of Valmar, that is. The Man of the West reads about the Darkening of Valinor and the theft of the Silmarils in this week’s Silmarillion Saturday!

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9:27

Week 3 - Fandom Friday: Kaitlyn from Tea With Tolkien

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/02

The Man of the West welcomes Kaitlyn to the Common Room for some Tea — with Tolkien, of course — in this week’s installment of Fandom Friday!

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7:14

Week 3 - Third Age Thursday: A Proper Fourteen-Twenty

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/06/01

It’s time to visit the Shire again, as Sam uses Galadriel’s gift to restore his homeland. Join The Man of the West as he reads and chats about S.R. 1420 in another Third Age Thursday!

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5:24

Week 3 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Say ‘Friend’ and Enter

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/05/31

The Man of the West digs deep into linguistic journals to explore all about Gandalf’s far-too-simple magic password in another installment of Word-nerd Wednesday!

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5:40

Week 3 - Tolkien Tuesday: No Just Grievance

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/05/30

Join the Man of the West as he continues reading Tolkien’s Letters, exploring more of the drama between the Professor and two publishers on Tolkien Tuesday.

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7:18

Week 3 - Mailbag Monday: Whatever Happened to Radagast?

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2023/05/29

The Man of the West begins another week of Today’s Tolkien Times with an interesting, albeit officially unanswerable, question for Mailbag Monday as we search for word of Radagast the Brown.

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