Today's Tolkien Times

By The Prancing Pony Podcast

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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April 26, 2025 Week 079 - Silmarillion Saturday: A Second Darkness
Join The Man of the West as we continue reading through Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age: Mithrandir is vigilant, Elrond is troubled, and Saruman plays with peril.

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10min
April 25, 2025 Week 079 - Fandom Friday: Galadriel’s Gorgeous Gambeson
The Man of the West welcomes Silhouette Cosplay to the TTT to explain to us mere mortals how costuming magic is actually made!

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17min
April 24, 2025 Week 079 - Third Age Thursday: Arise!
Join The Man of the West for an in-depth look at two pieces of alliterative verse cried out by a restored King Théoden… just ignore the butchering of Old English and Old Norse, please.

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13min
April 23, 2025 Week 079 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Beleriand Geography — Lightning Round
It’s time to look at a few of the place names we’ve encountered in our Túrin readings this series; we move through seven locations faster than Túrin comes up with seven names.

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9min
April 22, 2025 Week 079 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: With Little Hope
Join The Man of the West as Túrin’s reputation grows a little too big, Mîm picks a battle a bit too big, and Beleg runs across an Elf who’s had better days.

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12min
April 21, 2025 Week 079 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Great Brooding Presence
Once again, a title that could — at times — describe your host, but this time it’s where the Three Hunters are heading to start week 79 of the TTT!

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11min
April 19, 2025 Week 078 - Silmarillion Saturday: How Great Was Their Peril
We continue in Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age as the Dark Lord makes his return, the forest gets a new name, and the Valar send a little help. They could have screened them a bit better.

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10min
April 18, 2025 Week 078 - Fandom Friday: A Song of Greater Power
Join The Man of the West as he sits down with Tolkien scholar (and Ph.D. student) Clare Moore to talk about things he only barely understands.

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18min
April 17, 2025 Week 078 - Third Age Thursday: Unmarred, Unstained
Clearly not referring to The Man of the West or any of his clothing, today’s title references a line in a poem that Gandalf may have just made up on the spot.

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9min
April 16, 2025 Week 078 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Or, “Deadly Forest of Deadly Death”
Join The Man of the West for a closer look at Taur-nu-Fuin than you ever thought you’d like. Also, it turns out we’ve been misspelling the name of the River Teiglin all this time.

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10min

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