Today's Tolkien Times

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April 02, 2024 Week 037 - Tolkien Tuesday: Chiefly As a Poet
We return to learn more about Tolkien’s fellow Inkling, C.S. Lewis, and their mutual admiration for “Northernness”. Also, dragons can spoil commutes: just ask Eärendil.

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April 01, 2024 Week 037 - Mailbag Monday: Sure, It Kindles Hearts — But Can It Blend?
Join The Man of the West as he kicks off this week in appropriate style — then answers a question about Saruman’s hospitality towards his guest at Orthanc.

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March 30, 2024 Week 036 - Second Age Saturday: Sowed the Seeds of Restlessness
Tar-Meneldur’s concerns were well-founded, as it turns out. Join The Man of the West for another reading in the tale of Aldarion and Erendis. Also: we finally, and briefly, meet Erendis.

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March 29, 2024 Week 036 - First Age Friday: Have Thy Pay!
If you ever wondered just how cruel Sauron could be, today’s reading in The Lay of Leithian will answer that question.

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March 28, 2024 Week 036 - Third Age Thursday: We Could Do With a Bit More Queerness
The Gaffer has words for Sandyman yet again, while outlandish folk pull into town — including one rather familiar old man with a long white beard and bushy eyebrows. No, not The Man of the West.

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March 27, 2024 Week 036 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Rebuking His Impertinence
Sometimes, the Man of the West imagines his own impertinence would be rebuked, should the Professor be alive to do so. Fortunately, this was just a pedantic proof-reader who didn’t like Tolkien’s spelling.

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March 26, 2024 Week 036 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Thought I Was the Only One
Step into a meeting of the Kolbítar and learn why Lewis found it so invigorating. Also, talking about the gods and giants of Asgard until 2:30 in the morning… best college days ever.

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March 25, 2024 Week 036 - Mailbag Monday: Short-lived and Weaker Race
Join The Man of the West for a speculative question about Fëanor and what he might have thought about the race of Men — if he bothered to think about them at all.

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March 23, 2024 Week 035 - Second Age Saturday: But They Looked Far Away
Aldarion sails on his first voyage, and it changes his life — and the lives of people he hasn’t met yet. Meneldur observes the beginning of a problem, while Vëantur becomes an enabler.

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March 22, 2024 Week 035 - First Age Friday: Of Land Bereaved and Lordship Shorn
We return to the beautiful verses of the Lay of Leithian, only to be reminded that they do not always describing things of beauty. Also: a glimpse of the First Age Dirty Dozen.

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