Today's Tolkien Times

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August 19, 2024 Week 053 - Middle-earth Map Monday: An Old Name… in an Older Language
Join The Man of the West as he begins another week of the TTT with a close look at the town not at all named for a soft, spreadable cheese.
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8min
August 17, 2024 Week 052 - Second Age Saturday: Myself as a Tame Hound
Join The Man of the West as Aldarion shares his unfiltered opinion with his father, King Meneldur — just as the king is about to make a major announcement regarding the future of Númenor.
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8min
August 16, 2024 Week 052 - Fandom Friday: The Dwarf of the Year Returns
The Man of the West changes up Fandom Fridays for the rest of Series 7, with a focus on Tolkien content creators who were at San Diego ComicCon, getting their take on the upcoming Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Today, Varking Runesong joins us for chat that will inevitably include Dwarves!
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22min
August 15, 2024 Week 052 - Third Age Thursday: Tree-Tangled Middle-Lands
Join The Man of the West as the hobbits encounter Noldorin Exiles in the Shire, singing a beautiful Hymn to Elbereth. We also wonder about Gildor’s parentage.
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9min
August 14, 2024 Week 052 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Snow White is Very Inadequate
Look, I’m just saying what Tolkien says, okay? Sure, he means the translation of Fanuilos, and not the Disney princess, but maybe that’s true as well.
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8min
August 13, 2024 Week 052 - Tolkien Tuesday: Scant Resemblance
The Man of the West returns to Carpenter’s book on the Inklings, this time to seriously question the notion of Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield as ‘The Oxford Christians’.
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8min
August 12, 2024 Week 052 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Forefathers of the Edain
Join The Man of the West as he begins the week with a return to the new segment on Middle-earth Map Monday. Also, linguistic changes are unpredictable.

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12min
August 10, 2024 Week 051 - Second Age Saturday: Of What Worth Is Choice?
It’s time to return to our readings in Númenor as King Meneldur thinks through a no-win situation and makes a momentous decision regarding the future, as Aldarion has some contemptuous words for his father.

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11min
August 09, 2024 Week 051 - Fandom Friday: It’s Complicated
Join The Man of the West as he welcomes Inklings scholar Sørina Higgins to Fandom Friday to talk about the Oddest Inkling, Charles Williams, and explain some of the shifts in the way Tolkien viewed their friendship after his death.

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21min
August 08, 2024 Week 051 - Third Age Thursday: Round the Next Corner
We continue our look at poetry and songs in The Lord of the Rings by taking a deep dive into one of Bilbo’s songs, set to a tune “as old as the hills” (yet somehow younger than The Man of the West).

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9min

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