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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 134 - Third Age Thursday: A Thing of Worth Beyond Your Reckoning

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 134 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ridiculous in Theory and Erroneous in Fact

October 28, 2026 · 9 min

Join The Man of the West for a Yorkshire headland full of landowners, and a word for “slave” that started out meaning a runner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 134 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nobody Else Has Applied

October 27, 2026 · 9 min

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 134 - Might-Have-Been Monday: It’s a Simple Question, Elf

October 26, 2026 · 11 min

Join The Man of the West as Hassle asks what if Fëanor had worn the Silmarils to the party in Valmar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Week 133 - Silmarillion Saturday: He Knew No Other Name for Her

October 24, 2026 · 11 min

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 133 - Friendship Friday: A New Star Shall Arise

October 23, 2026 · 10 min

Join The Man of the West as Turgon and the brothers meet again on a battlefield, and Maeglin hears something he doesn’t forget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 133 - Third Age Thursday: A Strange, Unfriendly People

October 22, 2026 · 12 min

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m…
Week 133 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Sweetest Voice in the Woods

October 21, 2026 · 10 min

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 133 - Tolkien Tuesday: Picturesque Inscrutability

October 20, 2026 · 10 min

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 133 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let Us Vote

October 19, 2026 · 12 min

Join The Man of the West as Aragorn picks teams at Parth Galen, and we speculate just how much that breaks the Quest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 132 - Silmarillion Saturday: What Is Thy Price?

October 17, 2026 · 10 min

Join The Man of the West as fourteen weeks of Beren and Lúthien begin without a Lúthien in sight, but with a light in a window and a bad deal with Sauron. (Is there any other kind?) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…

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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!