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 20, 2025 Week 100 - Third Age Thursday: He Did Not Like It Much
Part two of our look at the Haradrim in this series on Men of Darkness covers the long, conflict-filled history of the Third Age as the Men of the Harad find themselves allied with Black Númenóreans.

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11min
November 19, 2025 Week 100 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Mist of Fear
Join The Man of the West as he discovers there’s a lot less word-nerdery on Barahir’s companions than he’d expected.

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9min
November 18, 2025 Week 100 - Tolkien Tuesday: Unmingled
We move on from Tolkien’s beef with the Swedish translator (finally), with a look at another of Tolkien’s letters to Rhona Beare, with this one feeling a bit like an early Word-nerd Wednesday.

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13min
November 17, 2025 Week 100 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Saxifrages and Stonecrops
Join The Man of the West for a milestone week of Today’s Tolkien Times, as he starts with a visit to the region of North Ithilien on Middle-earth Map Monday.

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12min
November 15, 2025 Week 099 - Silmarillion Saturday: A Measure of Truth
Join The Man of the West as he continues this series’ read-through Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin, as Sauron captures a strategic location.

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10min
November 14, 2025 Week 099 - First Age Friday: Greater and More Lordly
We return to yet another title that could (never) be said of The Man of the West. Join Alan as he drags Tuor through the Sixth and Seventh Gates, only to meet a guy with a diamond helmet.

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11min
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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