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Week 101 - Middle-earth Map Monday: An Unconsuming Fire Nov 24, 2025

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Welcome to the start of the next 100 weeks of Today’s Tolkien Times, with a Middle-earth Map Monday spent in the “window of some elven-tower, curtained with threaded jewels”.

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Week 100 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Sons of Galdor Nov 22, 2025

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Join The Man of the West as he celebrates his 600th episode of Today’s Tolkien Times, just in time to see Húrin and Huor rescued and taken to Gondolin!

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Week 100 - First Age Friday: Hasty Jottings Nov 21, 2025

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Join The Man of the West as we finally get Tuor’s passport stamped for Gondolin — and we learn a few more things that never made it off the scrap of paper.

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Week 100 - Third Age Thursday: He Did Not Like It Much Nov 20, 2025

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Part two of our look at the Haradrim in this series on Men of Darkness covers the long, conflict-filled history of the Third Age as the Men of the Harad find themselves allied with Black Númenóreans.

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Week 100 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Mist of Fear Nov 19, 2025

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Join The Man of the West as he discovers there’s a lot less word-nerdery on Barahir’s companions than he’d expected.

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Week 100 - Tolkien Tuesday: Unmingled Nov 18, 2025

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We move on from Tolkien’s beef with the Swedish translator (finally), with a look at another of Tolkien’s letters to Rhona Beare, with this one feeling a bit like an early Word-nerd Wednesday.

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Week 100 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Saxifrages and Stonecrops Nov 17, 2025

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Join The Man of the West for a milestone week of Today’s Tolkien Times, as he starts with a visit to the region of North Ithilien on Middle-earth Map Monday.

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Week 099 - Silmarillion Saturday: A Measure of Truth Nov 15, 2025

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Join The Man of the West as he continues this series’ read-through Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin, as Sauron captures a strategic location.

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Week 099 - First Age Friday: Greater and More Lordly Nov 14, 2025

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We return to yet another title that could (never) be said of The Man of the West. Join Alan as he drags Tuor through the Sixth and Seventh Gates, only to meet a guy with a diamond helmet.

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Week 099 - Third Age Thursday: For a Different Purpose Nov 13, 2025

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Join The Man of the West as he begins an extended look at yet another group of the Men of Darkness: the Haradrim.

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