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October 17 Week 132 - Silmarillion Saturday: What Is Thy Price?
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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11 min
October 16 Week 132 - Friendship Friday: Out of Love, and Not Only for His Law
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
October 15 Week 132 - Third Age Thursday: Hope in Their Disunion
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
October 14 Week 132 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Wolf’s Head
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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12 min
October 13 Week 132 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sinister and Depressing
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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11 min
October 13 Week 132 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let It Be So Then
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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13 min
September 19 Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn
Join The Man of the West as twelve weeks in Valinor come to an end and Fëanor proves he’s exactly who I’ve said he was all along.

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12 min
September 18 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.

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11 min
September 17 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.

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12 min
September 16 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.

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11 min

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