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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...

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Week 132 - Friendship Friday: Out of Love, and Not Only for His Law 16.10.2026 9:19

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 15.10.2026 10:18

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 14.10.2026 11:11

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 13.10.2026 10:19

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 13.10.2026 12:21

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 19.09.2026 11:29

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

Week 131 - Friendship Friday: The Loving Strokes of a Dwarf’s Axe 18.09.2026 10:04

Join The Man of the West as we look at the friendship of Gimli and Éomer: from the opening threat to the playful parting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Third Age Thursday: Great Kings Take What Is Their Right 17.09.2026 11:18

Ar-Pharazôn wins a war without a battle and foolishly carries the prize home — join The Man of the West for the Downfall of Númenor and the end of the Second Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Laughed Like a Dead Man 16.09.2026 10:11

Join The Man of the West for the last words of series 17, including dead man walking, and what a four-year-old in Númenor might call her father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Greatest of All Delights 15.09.2026 12:11

Join The Man of the West as we read a letter Tolkien began in 1964, finished in 1968, and still never sent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Man of His Word 14.09.2026 11:22

Join The Man of the West to find out what happens to Númenor — and Middle-earth — if Aldarion just did what he said he’d do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Silmarillion Saturday: This Doom I Add 12.09.2026 12:14

Mandos passes sentence on the Noldor, and Fëanor doubles down as The Man of the West nears the end of The Flight of the Noldor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Friendship Friday: Did I Not Say So at the Hornburg 11.09.2026 11:13

Join The Man of the West as a promise made at Dunharrow is kept on the Pelennor, and Aragorn hands Éomer back his sister. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Third Age Thursday: The Choice of Their Forefather 10.09.2026 10:48

Númenor gets a mountain, a Ban, and a slowly-growing shadow as The Man of the West continues a look at Appendix A from The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not the Day of the Wreckage 09.09.2026 10:13

Join The Man of the West as we look at a courtroom in the Ring of Doom, a royal walking stick, a haven, and yet another fence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Tolkien Tuesday: Coming Back to Leaf 08.09.2026 9:57

Join The Man of the West as he looks at a tree Tolkien can’t stop drawing, a car, the strangeness of punting, and a very boring textbook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Thanks to Saruman 07.09.2026 11:36

Join The Man of the West for a what-if that Merry & Pippin genuinely don’t want to think about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 129 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Work of Our Hearts 05.09.2026 11:41

Olwë tells Fëanor that the swan-ships are his people’s Silmarils, and Fëanor takes them anyway — join The Man of the West for the Kinslaying at Alqualondë. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 129 - Friendship Friday: Aragorn My Friend 04.09.2026 10:43

Two swords finally drawn together (pencils down!) at the Hornburg: join The Man of the West for part two of Aragorn and Éomer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 129 - Third Age Thursday: Westernmost of All Mortal Lands 03.09.2026 10:18

Join The Man of the West as Appendix A opens with the only Silmarillion anybody had for 22 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 129 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Number in a Queue 02.09.2026 11:12

Join The Man of the West for some people names, including one whose name just means they turned up a bit late to the party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 129 - Tolkien Tuesday: An Axe-Blow Near the Roots 01.09.2026 10:24

Join The Man of the West for two letters on the death of C. S. Lewis: a list of mourners written for a daughter, and a grievance struck through for a son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 129 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Only for a Moment 31.08.2026 10:39

Two cousins, one clearing and no words between them — join The Man of the West for the non-existent family reunion, plus a… slight correction from last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 128 - Silmarillion Saturday: Thou Hast Sworn in Vain 29.08.2026 11:19

Join The Man of the West as Fëanor’s facepalm moment arrives: we’re going to need boats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 128 - Friendship Friday: Wingfoot I Name You 28.08.2026 10:26

A new pairing opens with 100 spears, one drawn sword, and a man betting his life on a stranger he’d just tried to arrest — join The Man of the West for Aragorn and Éomer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices