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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!
- Episodes
- 807
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 10 min
- On air since
- 2023
- Latest episode
- 10 hours ago
Episodes
807 episodes, newest first
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9 min
Week 135 - Tolkien Tuesday: Bad Poems About It
Season 18, Episode 806
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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).
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10 min
Week 135 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Terribly Narrow Shave
Season 18, Episode 805
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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.
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11 min
Week 134 - Silmarillion Saturday: Beyond All Jewels
Season 18, Episode 804
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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.
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10 min
Week 134 - Friendship Friday: Welcome, Voronwë! I Await You
Season 18, Episode 803
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Join The Man of the West as Tuor calls a stranger by name, and starts quoting lines he’s never heard.
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10 min
Week 134 - Third Age Thursday: A Thing of Worth Beyond Your Reckoning
Season 11, Episode 802
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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.
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9 min
Week 134 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ridiculous in Theory and Erroneous in Fact
Season 18, Episode 801
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Join The Man of the West for a Yorkshire headland full of landowners, and a word for “slave” that started out meaning a runner.
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9 min
Week 134 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nobody Else Has Applied
Season 18, Episode 800
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Join The Man of the West for episode 800 of Today’s Tolkien Times; plus how an ill nun played a key role in the publication of The Hobbit.
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11 min
Week 134 - Might-Have-Been Monday: It’s a Simple Question, Elf
Season 18, Episode 777
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Join The Man of the West as Hassle asks what if Fëanor had worn the Silmarils to the party in Valmar.
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11 min
Week 133 - Silmarillion Saturday: He Knew No Other Name for Her
Season 18, Episode 798
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Join The Man of the West as Beren is driven out of Dorthonion, crosses the Mountains of Terror, and meets a girl who leaves him speechless.
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10 min
Week 133 - Friendship Friday: A New Star Shall Arise
Season 18, Episode 797
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Join The Man of the West as Turgon and the brothers meet again on a battlefield, and Maeglin hears something he doesn’t forget.
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12 min
Week 133 - Third Age Thursday: A Strange, Unfriendly People
Season 18, Episode 796
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Today’s title certainly does not apply to the listeners of the TTT! Join The Man of the West as he continues Appendix A and the Lossoth seem unimpressed by a king’s shiny things.
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10 min
Week 133 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Sweetest Voice in the Woods
Season 11, Episode 795
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Join The Man of the West for two hobbits with Old English names, fields named for a flower, and a bed that’s sometimes a grave… or a beer.
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10 min
Week 133 - Tolkien Tuesday: Picturesque Inscrutability
Season 18, Episode 794
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Join The Man of the West as Tolkien dreams of an Elvish typewriter (don’t we all?), complains about the band three doors down, and starts explaining where it all began.
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12 min
Week 133 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let Us Vote
Season 18, Episode 793
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Join The Man of the West as Aragorn picks teams at Parth Galen, and we speculate just how much that breaks the Quest.
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10 min
Week 132 - Silmarillion Saturday: What Is Thy Price?
Season 18, Episode 782
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Join The Man of the West as fourteen weeks of Beren and Lúthien begin without a Lúthien in sight, but with a light in a window and a bad deal with Sauron. (Is there any other kind?)
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9 min
Week 132 - Friendship Friday: Out of Love, and Not Only for His Law
Season 18, Episode 791
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Join The Man of the West as two brothers hitch a ride with the eagles to a city no Man has seen before.
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10 min
Week 132 - Third Age Thursday: Hope in Their Disunion
Season 18, Episode 790
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A kingdom splits three ways, a tower burns, and the Witch-king sees an opening as The Man of the West begins Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur.
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11 min
Week 132 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Wolf’s Head
Season 18, Episode 789
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Join The Man of the West for what a life cost in Anglo-Saxon England, a man with no law on his side, and a Greek turtle with an extra F.
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10 min
Week 132 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sinister and Depressing
Season 18, Episode 788
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Join The Man of the West for a sea monster that’s really an island, and a word that looks like a cat walked across Tolkien’s keyboard.
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12 min
Week 132 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let It Be So Then
Season 18, Episode 787
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Join The Man of the West as Elrond decides to go on the Quest himself, and someone may be sent home in a sack.
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