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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!
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!
Week 110 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The End of Gondor
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Join The Man of the West as we reach the far shores and conclude our 21-week journey through the regions of Gondor.
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Week 109 - Silmarillion Saturday: The First Evil
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Join The Man of the West as we accompany a now-free Húrin from Angband to his homelands and then on as he looks for mercy from Turgon.
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Week 109 - First Age Friday: You Lie
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Not you, sorry — Morgoth. At least that’s Húrin’s opinion as he continues his defiance of the Dark Lord in this week’s First Age Friday.
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Week 109 - Third Age Thursday: A Bulwark of Gondor
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We continue our study of the Men of Middle-earth, this time looking at the ancestors of the Rohirrim, known early on as the Northmen.
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Week 109 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ló and Behold
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Join The Man of the West as he looks at the etymology of a few more of the rivers and towns in Gondor, continuing our journey west through the land.
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Week 109 - Tolkien Tuesday: The ‘Fan Mail’ Keeps On Coming In
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And now you know the title isn’t a reference to The Man of the West! Join Alan as he begins a two-part look at another letter Tolkien wrote to his aunt, Jane Neave.
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Week 109 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Angbor the Fearless
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Join The Man of the West as he continues his journey through Gondor, looking at Lamedon, the Morthond Vale, and the uniquely-named ridge that separates the two.
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Week 108 - Silmarillion Saturday: Hardly Better Than Orcs
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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.
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Week 108 - First Age Friday: Time That Yet Lay Hidden
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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.
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Week 108 - Third Age Thursday: Middle Man, Not Middle Management
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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).
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Week 108 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Let x Be the Number of Rivers in a Land
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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!
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Week 108 - Tolkien Tuesday: At Least as Capacious as Mine
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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.
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Week 108 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Independent ‘Traditions’
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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.
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Week 107 - Silmarillion Saturday: Bereft of Their Power and Glory
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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.
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Week 107 - First Age Friday: Aurë entuluva! Day Shall Come Again!
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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.
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Week 107 - Third Age Thursday: Fierce Folk When Roused
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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.
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Week 107 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Better Late Than… Wandering?
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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.
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Week 107 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Feel Inclined to Tell Him So
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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?
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Week 107 - Middle-earth Map Monday: About That Beachfront Property…
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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.
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Week 106 - Silmarillion Saturday: Hope Was Renewed
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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.
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