Today's Tolkien Times

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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 avail... more

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November 13, 2025 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.

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11min
November 12, 2025 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?)

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11min
November 11, 2025 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.

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11min
November 10, 2025 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.

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10min
November 08, 2025 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.

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11min
November 07, 2025 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.

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12min
November 06, 2025 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.

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11min
November 05, 2025 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.

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11min
November 04, 2025 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.

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9min
November 03, 2025 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.

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