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 03, 2025 Week 098 - Middle-earth Map Monday: How about Making-it-up Monday?
Join The Man of the West as he begins Week 98 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a look at the port that keeps Minas Tirith going, the Harlond — and one more place of supreme strategic importance.

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11min
November 01, 2025 Week 097 - Silmarillion Saturday: Great Was the Lamentation
The sound of PPP and TTT fans when The Man of the West retires? Ha! Join Alan as Fingolfin meets his fate with courage, and Morgoth gets an owie he can’t fix.

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10min
October 31, 2025 Week 097 - First Age Friday: No Escape… and No Returning
We continue our journey with Tuor and Voronwë as they make their way from the First Gate up the Orfalch Echor with their guard guide, Elemmakil.

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11min
October 30, 2025 Week 097 - Third Age Thursday: Minds Filled with Hatred
Join The Man of the West as we begin a long look at another group of Men of Darkness; from Bór and Ulfang’s arrival in the First Age, the Easterlings and Edain have had a long history of conflict.

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12min
October 29, 2025 Week 097 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Maybe Avoid the Fen of Serech?
Join The Man of the West as he practically sprints through ten place names from our Silmarillion Saturday readings about the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin.

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11min
October 28, 2025 Week 097 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Should Make Him Apologize
The Man of the West is genuinely sorry; fortunately, Tolkien is talking about a Swedish interpreter of The Lord of the Rings instead.

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12min
October 27, 2025 Week 097 - Middle-earth Map Monday: I Like Big Butteries
Join The Man of the West as he relives a Philology Faire of the past while walking you through the rest of the City of Minas Tirith: the Hall of Feasts, Rath Dínen, stables, barracks, and yes, the buttery.

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11min
October 25, 2025 Week 096 - Silmarillion Saturday: And Morgoth Came
The war goes badly for the Noldor, and Fingolfin finds himself knocking on the door of the most powerful being in Middle-earth as we continue our readings in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the (spoilers) Fall of Fingolfin.

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11min
October 24, 2025 Week 096 - First Age Friday: I Should Slay Him
Thankfully, nothing to do with The Man of the West in this title: just an acknowledgement that Voronwë has put his old friend in a hard spot as we continue our readings in Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin.

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11min
October 23, 2025 Week 096 - Third Age Thursday: Men of Twilight and Men of Darkness
Join The Man of the West as he begins a dive into a new topic on Third Age Thursdays looking at different cultures of the race of Men in the Third Age.

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9min

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