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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August 07, 2024 Week 051 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Shout, Shout, Let It All Out
Join The Man of the West for a closer look at the name of Gil-galad’s father… or, maybe his father, or maybe not. Where’s Maury Povich when you need him? Also, bonus word-nerdery on the Vanyar’s favorite Valar.

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August 06, 2024 Week 051 - Tolkien Tuesday: Your Laugh In My Heart Echoes
We continue in our time in Humphrey Carpenter’s book, The Inklings, as we look more closely at the conflicted nature of Tolkien’s friendship with Charles Williams, and a poem the Professor wrote about his friend.

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August 05, 2024 Week 051 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Memory of Many Injuries
Join The Man of the West for another week of Today’s Tolkien Times as he returns to a new Monday segment looking at places in Middle-earth. This time, we visit the place Fredegar Bolger feared as much as Mordor: The Old Forest.

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August 03, 2024 Week 050 - Second Age Saturday: Manwë Keep You Under the One
The Man of the West returns to the story of Aldarion and Erendis for another set of Second Age Saturdays. In today’s episode, we look over the shoulder of King Meneldur as he reads a very important letter from Gil-galad.

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11min
August 02, 2024 Week 050 - Fandom Friday: Because It Was About Time
In a TTT first, The Man of the West has a co-host: Sara Brown, the Shield-maiden of Rohan. Join them as they interview the man behind the Welsh translation of The Hobbit.

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24min
August 01, 2024 Week 050 - Third Age Thursday: My Evening-Rest
Join The Man of the West as he begins a series of readings through the poetry and songs of The Lord of the Rings… by starting with a song from The Hobbit.

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9min
July 31, 2024 Week 050 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Scion of Kings
It’s time for another return to Word-nerd Wednesday, with today’s episode looking closely at the several names of the last High King of the Eldar. But not at his parentage.

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11min
July 30, 2024 Week 050 - Tolkien Tuesday: We All Agree So
The Man of the West returns to Humphrey Carpenter’s book, The Inklings, for more on Tolkien and his circle of friends. Today, a closer look at the oddest Inkling, Charles Williams.

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9min
July 29, 2024 Week 050 - Map Monday: The Land Was Rich and Kindly
Join The Man of the West as he begins a new series with a new Monday segment: Middle-earth Map Monday! In the first of this new segment, we learn the hobbits got a pretty good deal from Argeleb II.

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July 13, 2024 Week 049 - Second Age Saturday: Steel Hard to Break
Join The Man of the West as Aldarion all too briefly speaks with the daughter he abandoned years ago and coldly ignores her mother.

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