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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 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! So subscribe to Today’s Tolkien Times and follow us on all our social media channels!
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- 2 days ago10 min
Week 131 - Friendship Friday: The Loving Strokes of a Dwarf’s Axe
Join The Man of the West as we look at the friendship of Gimli and Éomer: from the opening threat to the playful parting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 days ago11 min
Week 131 - Third Age Thursday: Great Kings Take What Is Their Right
Ar-Pharazôn wins a war without a battle and foolishly carries the prize home — join The Man of the West for the Downfall of Númenor and the end of the Second Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 days ago10 min
Week 131 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Laughed Like a Dead Man
Join The Man of the West for the last words of series 17, including dead man walking, and what a four-year-old in Númenor might call her father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 5 days ago12 min
Week 131 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Greatest of All Delights
Join The Man of the West as we read a letter Tolkien began in 1964, finished in 1968, and still never sent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 6 days ago11 min
Week 131 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Man of His Word
Join The Man of the West to find out what happens to Númenor — and Middle-earth — if Aldarion just did what he said he’d do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago12 min
Week 130 - Silmarillion Saturday: This Doom I Add
Mandos passes sentence on the Noldor, and Fëanor doubles down as The Man of the West nears the end of The Flight of the Noldor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago11 min
Week 130 - Friendship Friday: Did I Not Say So at the Hornburg
Join The Man of the West as a promise made at Dunharrow is kept on the Pelennor, and Aragorn hands Éomer back his sister. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago10 min
Week 130 - Third Age Thursday: The Choice of Their Forefather
Númenor gets a mountain, a Ban, and a slowly-growing shadow as The Man of the West continues a look at Appendix A from The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
About Today's Tolkien Times
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 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! So subscribe to Today’s Tolkien Times and follow us on all our social media channels!
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