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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 134 - Friendship Friday: Welcome, Voronwë! I Await You Oct 30, 2026

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Join The Man of the West as Tuor calls a stranger by name, and starts quoting lines he’s never heard.

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Week 134 - Third Age Thursday: A Thing of Worth Beyond Your Reckoning Oct 29, 2026

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Join The Man of the West as Arvedui ignores the Lossoth’s warning about the sea-monster, and the ring that has quite the family tree.

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Week 134 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ridiculous in Theory and Erroneous in Fact Oct 28, 2026

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Join The Man of the West for a Yorkshire headland full of landowners, and a word for “slave” that started out meaning a runner.

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Week 134 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nobody Else Has Applied Oct 27, 2026

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Join The Man of the West for episode 800 of Today’s Tolkien Times; plus how an ill nun played a key role in the publication of The Hobbit.

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Week 134 - Might-Have-Been Monday: It’s a Simple Question, Elf Oct 26, 2026

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Join The Man of the West as Hassle asks what if Fëanor had worn the Silmarils to the party in Valmar.

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Week 133 - Silmarillion Saturday: He Knew No Other Name for Her Oct 24, 2026

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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.

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Week 133 - Friendship Friday: A New Star Shall Arise Oct 23, 2026

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Join The Man of the West as Turgon and the brothers meet again on a battlefield, and Maeglin hears something he doesn’t forget.

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Week 133 - Third Age Thursday: A Strange, Unfriendly People Oct 22, 2026

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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.

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Week 133 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Sweetest Voice in the Woods Oct 21, 2026

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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.

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Week 133 - Tolkien Tuesday: Picturesque Inscrutability Oct 20, 2026

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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.

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