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Alan Sisto, host of the award-winning Prancing Pony Podcast and Rings of Power Wrap-up, hosts a new short-format daily podcast. 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 Thursdays; hear from Tolkien fans around the world on Fandom Fridays; and dive deep into Middle-earth history on Silmarillion Saturdays! And on Sundays? That’s what The Prancing Pony Podcast is for!
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- Today10 min
Week 135 - Friendship Friday: Short Is the Sight of Mortal Men
Join The Man of the West as Tuor and Voronwë sneak past an Orc camp under Ulmo’s cloak, after passing within earshot of his cousin Túrin and not knowing it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Yesterday9 min
Week 135 - Third Age Thursday: Our King, We Call Him
Join The Man of the West as we’re reminded of how golf came to exist, and the Shire gets its answer to “When the King comes back.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 days ago10 min
Week 135 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Try to Keep Your Finrods Straight
Join The Man of the West for a hidden city whose name started out as a singing stone, and a word that meant “knowing” before it meant scheming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 days ago9 min
Week 135 - Tolkien Tuesday: Bad Poems About It
Join The Man of the West as the Necromancer gets a promotion, and Tolkien’s recurring dream of a giant wave leads to Númenor (shame we don’t get to see the bad poems). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 days ago9 min
Week 135 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Terribly Narrow Shave
Join The Man of the West as Erica asks what if Frodo had died on Weathertop (wraithified, to be precise), and who ends up holding the Ring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 6 days ago10 min
Week 134 - Silmarillion Saturday: Beyond All Jewels
Join The Man of the West as Lúthien sings in the spring, Daeron the minstrel is a tattle-tale, and Beren tells her father exactly what he’s after. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago9 min
Week 134 - Friendship Friday: Welcome, Voronwë! I Await You
Join The Man of the West as Tuor calls a stranger by name, and starts quoting lines he’s never heard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago10 min
Week 134 - Third Age Thursday: A Thing of Worth Beyond Your Reckoning
Join The Man of the West as Arvedui ignores the Lossoth’s warning about the sea-monster, and the ring that has quite the family tree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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About 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. 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 Thursdays; hear from Tolkien fans around the world on Fandom Fridays; and dive deep into Middle-earth history on Silmarillion Saturdays! And on Sundays? That’s what The Prancing Pony Podcast is for!
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