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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!

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    Week 104 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Little Tomfoolery Jan 07, 2026
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    Join The Man of the West for some different word-nerdery, this time on some English-sounding names that aren’t especially English.

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    Week 104 - Tolkien Tuesday: Heraldic Overtones Jan 06, 2026
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    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.

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    Week 104 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Tour of Gondor Continues Jan 05, 2026
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    Join The Man of the West as he begins the 14th Series of Today’s Tolkien Times with a look at the region of South Ithilien.

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    Week 103 - Rude Little Errand Boy Dec 20, 2025
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    Yes, that’s The Man of the West. But NPB means that to refer to Ilbereth, the secretary for Father Christmas, who writes the largest portion of this second half of the 1937 letter. What does roast Polar Bear taste like?

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    Week 103 - One of the Cleverest Elves Dec 19, 2025
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    Father Christmas wishes Tolkien a speedy recovery, and explains that he’s already giving away ‘second editions’ of The Hobbit just three months after its publication, as we look at the first part of the 1937 letter.

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    Week 103 - A Letter Worth Hearing Dec 18, 2025
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    Join The Man of the West for the 1936 letter as Father Christmas introduces us to a new member of Team North Pole, and Polar Bear takes a very long bath.

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    Week 103 - Quite a Nasty Outbreak Dec 17, 2025
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    It’s 1935, and Father Christmas grows concerned about the goblins, expecting trouble with them soon — but hey, elvish magic sparkler spears should do the trick, right? Right?

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    Week 103 - Frightful Mischief Dec 16, 2025
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    While The Man of the West is sometimes guilty of such trouble, today’s title refers to guests at the North Pole in 1934: Polar Bear’s young cousins, Paksu and Valkotukka!

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    Week 103 - I Enjoyed it Immensely! Dec 15, 2025
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    It’s time for our holiday tradition of reading from Letters From Father Christmas, this time starting in 1933 as Polar Bear continues his goblin-smashing ways!

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    Week 102 - Silmarillion Saturday: Great in Strength Both of Mind and Body Dec 06, 2025
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    No, today’s title… oh, you know the joke by now. Join The Man of the West as we conclude our time in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin from The Silmarillion.

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