Today's Tolkien Times
Today's Tolkien Times
The Prancing Pony Podcast
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Week 133 - Silmarillion Saturday: He Knew No Other Name for Her
Join The Man of the West as Beren is driven out of Dorthonion, crosses the Mountains of Terror, and meets a girl who leaves him speechless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 24
10 min
Week 133 - Friendship Friday: A New Star Shall Arise
Join The Man of the West as Turgon and the brothers meet again on a battlefield, and Maeglin hears something he doesn’t forget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 23
9 min
Week 133 - Third Age Thursday: A Strange, Unfriendly People
Today’s title certainly does not apply to the listeners of the TTT! Join The Man of the West as he continues Appendix A and the Lossoth seem unimpressed by a king’s shiny things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 22
11 min
Week 133 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Sweetest Voice in the Woods
Join The Man of the West for two hobbits with Old English names, fields named for a flower, and a bed that’s sometimes a grave… or a beer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 21
9 min
Week 133 - Tolkien Tuesday: Picturesque Inscrutability
Join The Man of the West as Tolkien dreams of an Elvish typewriter (don’t we all?), complains about the band three doors down, and starts explaining where it all began. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 20
10 min
Week 133 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let Us Vote
Join The Man of the West as Aragorn picks teams at Parth Galen, and we speculate just how much that breaks the Quest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19
12 min
Week 132 - Silmarillion Saturday: What Is Thy Price?
Join The Man of the West as fourteen weeks of Beren and Lúthien begin without a Lúthien in sight, but with a light in a window and a bad deal with Sauron. (Is there any other kind?) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 17
10 min
Week 132 - Friendship Friday: Out of Love, and Not Only for His Law
Join The Man of the West as two brothers hitch a ride with the eagles to a city no Man has seen before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 16
9 min
Week 132 - Third Age Thursday: Hope in Their Disunion
A kingdom splits three ways, a tower burns, and the Witch-king sees an opening as The Man of the West begins Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 15
10 min
Week 132 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Wolf’s Head
Join The Man of the West for what a life cost in Anglo-Saxon England, a man with no law on his side, and a Greek turtle with an extra F. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 14
11 min
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