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
  • Week 100 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Sons of Galdor

    Week 100 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Sons of Galdor
    Nov 22 2025
    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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    11 mins
  • Week 100 - First Age Friday: Hasty Jottings

    Week 100 - First Age Friday: Hasty Jottings
    Nov 21 2025
    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    11 mins
  • Week 100 - Third Age Thursday: He Did Not Like It Much

    Week 100 - Third Age Thursday: He Did Not Like It Much
    Nov 20 2025
    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    11 mins
  • Week 100 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Mist of Fear

    Week 100 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Mist of Fear
    Nov 19 2025
    Join The Man of the West as he discovers there’s a lot less word-nerdery on Barahir’s companions than he’d expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    9 mins
  • Week 100 - Tolkien Tuesday: Unmingled

    Week 100 - Tolkien Tuesday: Unmingled
    Nov 18 2025
    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    12 mins