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**Today’s Tolkien Times**

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!

Latest Episodes:

Week 132 - Friendship Friday: Out of Love, and Not Only for His Law Oct 16, 2026

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Join The Man of the West as two brothers hitch a ride with the eagles to a city no Man has seen before.

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Week 132 - Third Age Thursday: Hope in Their Disunion Oct 15, 2026

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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.

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Week 132 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Wolf’s Head Oct 14, 2026

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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.

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Week 132 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sinister and Depressing Oct 13, 2026

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Join The Man of the West for a sea monster that’s really an island, and a word that looks like a cat walked across Tolkien’s keyboard.

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Week 132 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let It Be So Then Oct 13, 2026

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Join The Man of the West as Elrond decides to go on the Quest himself, and someone may be sent home in a sack.

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Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn Sep 19, 2026

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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.

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Week 131 - Friendship Friday: The Loving Strokes of a Dwarf’s Axe Sep 18, 2026

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Join The Man of the West as we look at the friendship of Gimli and Éomer: from the opening threat to the playful parting.

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Week 131 - Third Age Thursday: Great Kings Take What Is Their Right Sep 17, 2026

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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.

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Week 131 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Laughed Like a Dead Man Sep 16, 2026

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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.

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Week 131 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Greatest of All Delights Sep 15, 2026

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Join The Man of the West as we read a letter Tolkien began in 1964, finished in 1968, and still never sent.

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