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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!

Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn

Join The Man of the West as twelve weeks in Valinor come to an end and Fëanor proves he’s exactly who I’ve said he was all along. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 19

11 min

Week 131 - Friendship Friday: The Loving Strokes of a Dwarf’s Axe

Join The Man of the West as we look at the friendship of Gimli and Éomer: from the opening threat to the playful parting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 18

10 min

Week 131 - Third Age Thursday: Great Kings Take What Is Their Right

Ar-Pharazôn wins a war without a battle and foolishly carries the prize home — join The Man of the West for the Downfall of Númenor and the end of the Second Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 17

11 min

Week 131 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Laughed Like a Dead Man

Join The Man of the West for the last words of series 17, including dead man walking, and what a four-year-old in Númenor might call her father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 16

10 min

Week 131 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Greatest of All Delights

Join The Man of the West as we read a letter Tolkien began in 1964, finished in 1968, and still never sent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 15

12 min

Week 131 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Man of His Word

Join The Man of the West to find out what happens to Númenor — and Middle-earth — if Aldarion just did what he said he’d do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 14

11 min

Week 130 - Silmarillion Saturday: This Doom I Add

Mandos passes sentence on the Noldor, and Fëanor doubles down as The Man of the West nears the end of The Flight of the Noldor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 12

12 min

Week 130 - Friendship Friday: Did I Not Say So at the Hornburg

Join The Man of the West as a promise made at Dunharrow is kept on the Pelennor, and Aragorn hands Éomer back his sister. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 11

11 min

Week 130 - Third Age Thursday: The Choice of Their Forefather

Númenor gets a mountain, a Ban, and a slowly-growing shadow as The Man of the West continues a look at Appendix A from The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 10

10 min

Week 130 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not the Day of the Wreckage

Join The Man of the West as we look at a courtroom in the Ring of Doom, a royal walking stick, a haven, and yet another fence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 9

10 min