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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October 17, 2024 Week 059 - Third Age Thursday: A Merry Passenger, a Messenger, a Mariner
Join The Man of the West as he starts his study of Bilbo’s latest chart-topping single, The Song of Eärendil, and learns just how many versions of it there really were.

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13min
October 16, 2024 Week 059 - Word-nerd Wednesday: How About Next-to-Last Instead?
Arvedui finds out what his name really means, as The Man of the West looks at his name and other words from our Middle-earth Map Monday episode.

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10min
October 15, 2024 Week 059 - Tolkien Tuesday: But Can’t They Be Very Different?
It’s finally time to begin our long look at Tolkien’s views on adaptation as we start Letter 210 and hear from Tom Shippey on the canons of narrative art and the core of the original.

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13min
October 14, 2024 Week 059 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Four Oh Something
Join The Man of the West as he begins week 59 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a deep dive into the deep freeze of Forodwaith and Forochel on Middle-earth Map Monday!

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11min
October 12, 2024 Week 058 - Silmarillion Saturday: Silver Flame in the Paths of the Sun
The Man of the West gets to read about… well, the Men of the West! The Edain are rewarded with wisdom, power, long life, and a new island home, in our first look at the Akallabêth.

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11min
October 11, 2024 Week 058 - First Age Friday: A Song of Staying
The Man of the West returns to the Lay of Leithian for another eight weeks in First Age Fridays, beginning with the epic song battle between Sauron and Finrod.

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12min
October 10, 2024 Week 058 - Third Age Thursday: Just a Bit of Nonsense
Who’s coming up with these episode titles? Today’s Third Age Thursday reading continues with poetry in The Lord of the Rings; this time, with Sam’s recitation of his own epic lay about trolls.

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11min
October 09, 2024 Week 058 - Word-nerd Wednesday: She That Has Fallen
The Man of the West begins this series of Word-nerd Wednesdays with a look at several words from Akallabêth, including a few names for the island itself.

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9min
October 08, 2024 Week 058 - Tolkien Tuesday: Hasty, Insensitive, and Impertinent
While the Professor continues to make The Man of the West feel called out, the invectives here are meant for a guy by the name of Zimmerman. Tell us what you really think, Professor!

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11min
October 07, 2024 Week 058 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Nesting Dolls of the North
Join The Man of the West as he kicks off a new 8-week series of Today’s Tolkien Times, starting with a return to a new fan favorite segment — get your maps out for today’s look at Arthedain.

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