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Week 104 - Silmarillion Saturday: Less Aid Than Should Have Been
2026/1/10 | 10 mins.
Join The Man of the West as Fëanor’s foolish oath bears unpleasant fruit more than 500 years later as we begin our reading about the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 104 - First Age Friday: Both Fell to Ruin
2026/1/09 | 11 mins.
While it is true that The Man of the West isn’t what he used to be, I’d hardly use ‘fell to ruin’. No, that’s just a Balrog of Morgoth and our old friend Glorfindel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 104 - Third Age Thursday: Black Sails Bellying in the Breeze
2026/1/08 | 12 mins.
We continue our look at the Men of Darkness in the Third Age as The Man of the West concludes his time studying the Corsairs of Umbar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 104 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Little Tomfoolery
2026/1/07 | 8 mins.
Join The Man of the West for some different word-nerdery, this time on some English-sounding names that aren’t especially English. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 104 - Tolkien Tuesday: Heraldic Overtones
2026/1/06 | 10 mins.
Continuing our look at Tolkien’s 1961 letter to his Aunt Jane, we find an argument for why a word like ‘argent’ is beautiful even before it is understood. Totally unlike The Man of the West, of course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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 available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever else you get your podcasts! Listeners get answers on Mailbag Mondays; discover more about the Professor on Tolkien Tuesdays; indulge your inner philologist on Word-nerd Wednesdays; learn more about the familiar stories of Middle-earth on Third Age Thursdays; hear from Tolkien fans around the world on Fandom Fridays; and dive deep into Middle-earth history on Silmarillion Saturdays! And on Sundays? That’s what The Prancing Pony Podcast is for! So subscribe to Today’s Tolkien Times and follow us on all our social media channels!

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