Today’s Tolkien Times
- Episodes
- 816
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- Nov 13, 2026
About the podcast
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!
Episodes 816
Week 136 - Friendship Friday: Lead Me Still On!
Join The Man of the West as Tuor and Voronwë crawl up the Dry River and into the dark, where they turn out not to be alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 136 - Third Age Thursday: Precious Stones Are Pebbles
Join The Man of the West as Gondor reaches its height, and we try to keep our Turambars straight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 136 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not Worth a Brummingham
Join The Man of the West for a fake coin with a hometown, a glass flagon, and a house-ward who sometimes ends up holding the crown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 136 - Tolkien Tuesday: Good in Parts
Join The Man of the West as letter 257 wraps up with the real source of Gamgee, and Tolkien apologizing for his garrulity (only four episodes in). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 136 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Doom Hung by a Thread
Join The Man of the West as we ask what if Ar-Pharazôn had turned back at the shores of Aman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 135 - Silmarillion Saturday: You Have Devised Cunning Counsel
Join The Man of the West as Thingol names his price, Melian isn’t impressed, and Beren holds up a ring to keep the archers of Nargothrond from shooting him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 135 - Friendship Friday: Short Is the Sight of Mortal Men
Join The Man of the West as Tuor and Voronwë sneak past an Orc camp under Ulmo’s cloak, after passing within earshot of his cousin Túrin and not knowing it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 135 - Third Age Thursday: Our King, We Call Him
Join The Man of the West as we’re reminded of how golf came to exist, and the Shire gets its answer to “When the King comes back.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 135 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Try to Keep Your Finrods Straight
Join The Man of the West for a hidden city whose name started out as a singing stone, and a word that meant “knowing” before it meant scheming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 135 - Tolkien Tuesday: Bad Poems About It
Join The Man of the West as the Necromancer gets a promotion, and Tolkien’s recurring dream of a giant wave leads to Númenor (shame we don’t get to see the bad poems). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit …
Show notes
Join The Man of the West as the Necromancer gets a promotion, and Tolkien’s recurring dream of a giant wave leads to Númenor (shame we don’t get to see the bad poems).
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 135 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Terribly Narrow Shave
Join The Man of the West as Erica asks what if Frodo had died on Weathertop (wraithified, to be precise), and who ends up holding the Ring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 134 - Silmarillion Saturday: Beyond All Jewels
Join The Man of the West as Lúthien sings in the spring, Daeron the minstrel is a tattle-tale, and Beren tells her father exactly what he’s after. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 134 - Friendship Friday: Welcome, Voronwë! I Await You
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
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
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
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
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
Week 133 - Silmarillion Saturday: He Knew No Other Name for Her
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
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
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 …
Show notes
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 megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 133 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Sweetest Voice in the Woods
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
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 …
Show notes
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
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?
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 …
Show notes
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 megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 132 - Friendship Friday: Out of Love, and Not Only for His Law
Join The Man of the West as two brothers hitch a ride with the eagles to a city no Man has seen before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 132 - Third Age Thursday: Hope in Their Disunion
A kingdom splits three ways, a tower burns, and the Witch-king sees an opening as The Man of the West begins Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 132 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Wolf’s Head
Join The Man of the West for what a life cost in Anglo-Saxon England, a man with no law on his side, and a Greek turtle with an extra F. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 132 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sinister and Depressing
Join The Man of the West for a sea monster that’s really an island, and a word that looks like a cat walked across Tolkien’s keyboard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 132 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let It Be So Then
Join The Man of the West as Elrond decides to go on the Quest himself, and someone may be sent home in a sack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn
Join The Man of the West as twelve weeks in Valinor come to an end and Fëanor proves he’s exactly who I’ve said he was all along. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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