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Week 069 - Word-nerd Wednesday: My Brother’s Office is So Much Nicer Jan 22, 2025

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Join The Man of the West in his continued effort to uncover more about the names of the Valar: in today’s episode, we chat with the Masters of Spirits: Námo and his little brother, Irmo.

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Week 069 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Laughter of Ilúvatar Jan 21, 2025

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Tolkien presents two important stories from The Silmarillion 20 years before the book is published, as he explains in Letter 212 the tale of Míriel and of the Creation of the Dwarves by Aulë.

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Week 069 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Too Numerous and Valiant Jan 20, 2025

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Join The Man of the West as he ends his three-week look at the Dwarven kingdom of Khazad-dûm! From Galadriel’s far-sightedness and the innocence of the Dwarves of Belegost, we move deep into the Third Age and the fall of Moria.

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Week 068 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Sky Reeled, and the Hills Slid Jan 18, 2025

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Númenor pays the ultimate price for its pride and rebellion as Ar-Pharazôn suddenly discovers he’d rather not have immortality after all in this week’s installment of the Akallabêth on Silmarillion Saturday!

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Week 068 - First-Age Friday: In Love Must In Thy Dying Share Jan 17, 2025

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The bestest good boy ever has some hard words for Beren before providing the best cosplay advice ever in another episode on The Lay of Leithian on this week’s First Age Friday!

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Week 068 - Third Age Thursday: An Old Man in a Battered Hat Jan 16, 2025

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Once again, no this isn’t a title describing The Man of the West: he doesn’t really wear hats. But Gandalf did, and Frodo missed him — so he sang a lament that we’ll take a look at in this week’s Third Age Thursday!

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Week 068 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The World-Artificer and The Forester Jan 15, 2025

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Join The Man of the West for another Word-nerd Wednesday: this week’s contestants on ‘Who’s Got the Coolest Name?’ are the Valar of Smithing and of Hunting: Aulë and Oromë.

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Week 068 - Tolkien Tuesday: Of Equal Lineage Jan 14, 2025

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It’s time to remind those Elves that they’re no better than us as The Man of the West looks at Letter 212 where Tolkien “adds a few lines” about the mythological framework behind all of the legendarium. A few lines, he said.

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Week 068 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Given Without Love Jan 13, 2025

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Join The Man of the West as he starts Week 68 of Today’s Tolkien Times with another Middle-earth Map Monday in Moria as we look at more of the names of the Mansions of the Dwarves and a bit of its early history.

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Week 067 - Silmarillion Saturday: Repent For a Season Jan 11, 2025

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Join The Man of the West as we spend just a few more weeks in the Akallabêth, watching the train wreck of Númenor. Ar-Pharazôn ignores the signs and tries to take a thing that can’t be taken on this week’s Silmarillion Saturday.

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