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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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11:36

Week 108 - Silmarillion Saturday: Hardly Better Than...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/07

Famously not what The Man of the West says about people who don’t listen to the PPP or TTT. Instead, it’s Húrin’s opinion of the Men new to his part of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:30

Week 108 - First Age Friday: Time That Yet Lay Hidden

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/06

Join The Man of the West as we finish Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and begin to pull all the strings together to lead us to Eärendil and the War of Wrath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:18

Week 108 - Third Age Thursday: Middle Man, Not Middle...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/05

Anyone can be a mid-level supervisor; it takes someone special to be a Middle Man — or does it? Join The Man of the West as he takes a closer look at Men of the Twilight (no vampires or werewolves involved). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:52

Week 108 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Let x Be the Number...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/04

Join The Man of the West as we visit yet another land named solely after the number of rivers within it on this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:05

Week 108 - Tolkien Tuesday: At Least as Capacious as...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/03

The size of your waste paper basket doesn’t really matter; after all, you know you’re not throwing away a letter from Tolkien, even if it is long and pedantic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:16

Week 108 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Independent...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/02/02

Join The Man of the West in his journeys…um, west… through the southern fiefs of Gondor, as he looks more closely at the home of Imrahil known as Dol Amroth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:01

Week 107 - Silmarillion Saturday: Bereft of Their...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/31

Some might say it’s a tragedy; others might say it’s about time. We look at the aftermath of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and begin to tie this story together with the months-long journey we took with Tuor.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:15

Week 107 - First Age Friday: Aurë entuluva! Day Shall...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/30

The Battle of Unnumbered Tears lives up to its name in spectacular fashion as Fingon meets his gruesome end and the Men of Dor-lómin lay down their lives to protect the secrecy of Gondolin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:35

Week 107 - Third Age Thursday: Fierce Folk When Roused

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/29

The Man of the West finishes his long look at the Men of Darkness with the Dunlendings, a group of Men that might be better called Middle Men gone wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:17

Week 107 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Better Late Than…...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/28

Join The Man of the West as he finishes off the last of the Five Rivers of Lebennin before discovering what Imrahil and Pippin have in common. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:35

Week 107 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Feel Inclined to Tell...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/27

We’re sure you do, Professor — and we hope you did! Join The Man of the West as the Professor calls himself — accurately — a natural niggler. Also, a bottle of the Old Winyards? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:03

Week 107 - Middle-earth Map Monday: About That...

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/26

Join The Man of the West for a look at Pelargir throughout the ages, before we move into Belfalas and the realm of the Prince of Dol Amroth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:32

Week 106 - Silmarillion Saturday: Hope Was Renewed

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/24

Granted, only to be smashed under the feet of Uldor and his sons, but it was still renewed. Join The Man of the West for another reading from the Battle of Unnumbered Tears. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:17

Week 106 - First Age Friday: “and Morgoth trembled…”

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/23

Join The Man of the West as he brings the Nirnaeth Arnoediad to First Age Fridays as well; the quicker to get through it, I suppose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:07

Week 106 - Third Age Thursday: A People Apart

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/22

It’s time for an honest look at the folk known as the Dunlendings, so join The Man of the West as he goes back to the arrival of the Atani in Beleriand to draw connections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:36

Week 106 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Calling Count von Count

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/21

Join The Man of the West for an unexpected grammar lesson as we explore the names of the five rivers of Lebennin. Or four of them, at least. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:18

Week 106 - Tolkien Tuesday: Her Dragon is Absurd

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/20

When an artist fails to meet Tolkien’s standards, it’s time to call in Pauline Baynes! Join The Man of the West as we revisit the Letters on Tolkien Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:54

Week 106 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Five Swift Streams

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/19

Join The Man of the West as he continues his journeys in southern Gondor, moving into the green fields of Lebennin where the people are hardy and numerous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:03

Week 105 - Silmarillion Saturday: Utúlie’n Aurë!

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/17

And The Man of the West answered crying “Auta i lómë! The night is passing!” Or maybe that was the army of Fingon when they heard the trumpet of Turgon, who finally decided to do something.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:32

Week 105 - First Age Friday: Felt Old Age Creep Upon Him

Today"s Tolkien Times ·

2026/01/16

The Man of the West is wondering who’s behind these episode titles. Tuor leads the refugees of Gondolin to safety before deciding it’s time to sail off into the sunset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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