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Today's Tolkien Times

Today's Tolkien Times

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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!© The Prancing Pony Podcast Art Literary History & Criticism Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Week 101 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ugly Shaggy Hair, Son of Ugly Beard

    Week 101 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ugly Shaggy Hair, Son of Ugly Beard
    Nov 26 2025
    No, this isn’t The Man of the West saying his son needs a haircut; today’s Word-nerd Wednesday looks at the Sindarin names of some of the new arrivals in Beleriand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    8 mins
  • Week 101 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Don’t Know if They Have Any Virtue at All

    Week 101 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Don’t Know if They Have Any Virtue at All
    Nov 25 2025
    The Man of the West says the same about TTT episodes, but one of today’s letters sees the Professor say this about some of his poems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    10 mins
  • Week 101 - Middle-earth Map Monday: An Unconsuming Fire

    Week 101 - Middle-earth Map Monday: An Unconsuming Fire
    Nov 24 2025
    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”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    9 mins
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