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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June 06, 2025 Week 082 - First Age Friday: An Outlaw in the Land of His Fathers
Join The Man of the West for a new series of First Age Fridays as we look at the tale Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin from Unfinished Tales.

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14min
June 05, 2025 Week 082 - Third Age Thursday: Need Shall Drive Him
The Man of the West takes a long look at the words of Malbeth the Seer — including a look at the drafts when Malbeth had nothing to do with this prophecy at all.

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11min
June 04, 2025 Week 082 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Noble Towers, Silver Birches and Golden Worms
Join The Man of the West as he powers his word-nerd way through six words from yesterday’s reading in the Tale of Túrin Turambar.

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9min
June 03, 2025 Week 082 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: Yet I Rue the Day
We continue our Túrin Turambar Tuesdays as Ulmo sends Orodreth some good advice, and Túrin promptly ignores it. Gwindor loses everything, and Túrin gets one more chance.

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11min
June 02, 2025 Week 082 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Far-off Days of the Glory of Gondor
Join The Man of the West as he begins Series 11 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a return to Middle-earth Map Monday as our Rohan road trip stops at Súthburg.

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11min
June 02, 2025 Week 082 - Silmarillion Saturday: Like Unto Countless Choirs
It’s time for a deep dive into the musical origins of creation in the first of six readings in the Ainulindalë, the Music of the Ainur, from The Silmarillion.

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10min
May 10, 2025 Week 081 - Silmarillion Saturday: With His Servant?!
I’d say Sam needs a new publicist. Join The Man of the West as we close out our time in Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age with, uh, well, the end of the Third Age.

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11min
May 09, 2025 Week 081 - Fandom Friday: Don Marshall
Join The Man of the West in welcoming back Don Marshall to Today’s Tolkien Times, as he tells us about the new book he’s writing!

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20min
May 08, 2025 Week 081 - Third Age Thursday: Huge, Old, and Tall
I’d make one of those “I feel called out” jokes, but I know I’m not tall. Join The Man of the West for an in-depth look at a hobbit nursery rhyme that turns out to be prophetic.

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8min
May 07, 2025 Week 081 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Orodreth Went to West Virginia?
Join The Man of the West for another look at a series of names connected to Nargothrond and Túrin’s time there.

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10min

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