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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December 02, 2025 Week 102 - Tolkien Tuesday: Other and Duller Things
Join The Man of the West as he begins a look at another letter from Tolkien to his Aunt Jane; turns out sorting through old poetry is better than the rest of the things Tolkien should be doing.

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December 01, 2025 Week 102 - Middle-earth Map Monday: How Long Have I Been Asleep?
I’d say about two days, if episodes of Today’s Tolkien Times are anything to go by. Join The Man of the West as he begins the last week of Series 13 by looking at the site of what Tolkien says is the eucatastrophe of the whole story.

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November 29, 2025 Week 101 - Silmarillion Saturday: At Least They Had Window Seats
Join The Man of the West as he spends a year in Gondolin with the brothers Húrin and Huor, only to get left at the airport in the middle of the night.

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November 28, 2025 Week 101 - First Age Friday: Word of the Woes Without
Tuor finally brings his message to Turgon; the King doesn’t take his advice, but does allow him to marry his daughter, as we shift chapters in our story of Tuor and Gondolin.

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November 27, 2025 Week 101 - Third Age Thursday: Like a Glitter of Stars
Join The Man of the West for the third episode on the Haradrim, as we look at the actions of the Southrons in The War of the Ring in another of our deep dives of the Men of Darkness in the Third Age.

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11min
November 26, 2025 Week 101 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ugly Shaggy Hair, Son of Ugly Beard
No, this isn’t The Man of the West saying his son needs a haircut; today’s Word-nerd Wednesday looks at the Sindarin names of some of the new arrivals in Beleriand.

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9min
November 25, 2025 Week 101 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Don’t Know if They Have Any Virtue at All
The Man of the West says the same about TTT episodes, but one of today’s letters sees the Professor say this about some of his poems.

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November 24, 2025 Week 101 - Middle-earth Map Monday: An Unconsuming Fire
Welcome to the start of the next 100 weeks of Today’s Tolkien Times, with a Middle-earth Map Monday spent in the “window of some elven-tower, curtained with threaded jewels”.

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November 22, 2025 Week 100 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Sons of Galdor
Join The Man of the West as he celebrates his 600th episode of Today’s Tolkien Times, just in time to see Húrin and Huor rescued and taken to Gondolin!

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November 21, 2025 Week 100 - First Age Friday: Hasty Jottings
Join The Man of the West as we finally get Tuor’s passport stamped for Gondolin — and we learn a few more things that never made it off the scrap of paper.

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