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Today's Tolkien Times
The Prancing Pony Podcast
595 episodes
1 day ago
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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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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Today's Tolkien Times
Week 099 - Silmarillion Saturday: A Measure of Truth
Join The Man of the West as he continues this series’ read-through Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin, as Sauron captures a strategic location. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 day ago
9 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 099 - First Age Friday: Greater and More Lordly
We return to yet another title that could (never) be said of The Man of the West. Join Alan as he drags Tuor through the Sixth and Seventh Gates, only to meet a guy with a diamond helmet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 days ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 099 - Third Age Thursday: For a Different Purpose
Join The Man of the West as he begins an extended look at yet another group of the Men of Darkness: the Haradrim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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3 days ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 099 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Baragund and Isildur’s Horse?
Join The Man of the West as he discovers an unlikely connection in this week’s fan favorite Philology Faire… uh, Word-nerd Wednesday. (You heard the music, didn’t you?) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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4 days ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 099 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Farrago of Nonsense
Once considered as a subtitle for Today’s Tolkien Times, today’s title is Tolkien’s response to a continued onslaught of silliness from a Swedish translator of The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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5 days ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 099 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Haughty and Ungenerous
Most definitely not describing The Man of the West… right? Join Alan as he begins the 99th week of episodes for Today’s Tolkien Times with a look at the Gondorian capital city — not that one: Osgiliath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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6 days ago
9 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 098 - Silmarillion Saturday: So By Perilous Paths
In this week’s reading of “I hope I never have to do that”, we learn about the hero Emeldir and how her actions saved the future of Middle-earth. Also, Robin Hood and his… not-likely-merry men. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 week ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 098 - First Age Friday: As Moonlight Through a Glimmering Mist
Join The Man of the West as we continue our climb through the Orfalch Echor, this time passing through the Gates of Iron and Silver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 week ago
11 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 098 - Third Age Thursday: Strong and War-hardened
Most assuredly not describing The Man of the West, today’s episode continues our look at the Easterlings over the last 500 years of the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 week ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 098 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Back Away from the Elvish Dictionary, Sir
Join The Man of the West as he walks through the meanings of several important names from our readings in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin — and also proves why he’s not a language consultant for any TV or film adaptations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 week ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 098 - Tolkien Tuesday: Presumptuous Impertinence
Often presumptuous, sometimes impertinent, but rarely both: The Man of the West continues his look at the beef between Tolkien and the Swedish translator of The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 week ago
8 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 098 - Middle-earth Map Monday: How about Making-it-up Monday?
Join The Man of the West as he begins Week 98 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a look at the port that keeps Minas Tirith going, the Harlond — and one more place of supreme strategic importance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 week ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 097 - Silmarillion Saturday: Great Was the Lamentation
The sound of PPP and TTT fans when The Man of the West retires? Ha! Join Alan as Fingolfin meets his fate with courage, and Morgoth gets an owie he can’t fix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 weeks ago
9 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 097 - First Age Friday: No Escape… and No Returning
We continue our journey with Tuor and Voronwë as they make their way from the First Gate up the Orfalch Echor with their guard guide, Elemmakil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 weeks ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 097 - Third Age Thursday: Minds Filled with Hatred
Join The Man of the West as we begin a long look at another group of Men of Darkness; from Bór and Ulfang’s arrival in the First Age, the Easterlings and Edain have had a long history of conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 weeks ago
11 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 097 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Maybe Avoid the Fen of Serech?
Join The Man of the West as he practically sprints through ten place names from our Silmarillion Saturday readings about the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 weeks ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 097 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Should Make Him Apologize
The Man of the West is genuinely sorry; fortunately, Tolkien is talking about a Swedish interpreter of The Lord of the Rings instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 weeks ago
11 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 097 - Middle-earth Map Monday: I Like Big Butteries
Join The Man of the West as he relives a Philology Faire of the past while walking you through the rest of the City of Minas Tirith: the Hall of Feasts, Rath Dínen, stables, barracks, and yes, the buttery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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2 weeks ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 096 - Silmarillion Saturday: And Morgoth Came
The war goes badly for the Noldor, and Fingolfin finds himself knocking on the door of the most powerful being in Middle-earth as we continue our readings in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the (spoilers) Fall of Fingolfin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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3 weeks ago
10 minutes

Today's Tolkien Times
Week 096 - First Age Friday: I Should Slay Him
Thankfully, nothing to do with The Man of the West in this title: just an acknowledgement that Voronwë has put his old friend in a hard spot as we continue our readings in Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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3 weeks ago
10 minutes

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!