Today's Tolkien Times

The Man of the West is in his happy place, reading the longest piece of Quenya text in The Lord of the Rings as we look at Galadriel’s Lament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West for a look at the captain of the Valar football team, Tulkas Astaldo. And because we don’t get to ignore him, Melkor also makes an appearance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Professor laments the process of getting work done at the house, and dispenses great medical advice to his cousin, and to us as well, on this week’s Tolkien Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he tries to untangle the knots Tolkien gave us in The History of Galadriel and Celeborn as he begins his look at Lothlórien on Middle-earth Map Mondays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s a busy time for cartographers after the Downfall of Númenor, as we read about the aftermath of Atalantë in the last reading of the Akallabêth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West for a First Age Flashback in The Lay of Leithian as Fingolfin squares off against the mighty Morgoth, who would prefer to not to risk his undefeated record. Also, a huge bird! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our journey through the songs and poems in The Lord of the Rings as we listen to Galadriel’s Song and her bittersweet memories of Eldamar, as she wonders what ship would ever bear her across so wide a Sea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West in his continued effort to uncover more about the names of the Valar: in today’s episode, we chat with the Masters of Spirits: Námo and his little brother, Irmo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tolkien presents two important stories from The Silmarillion 20 years before the book is published, as he explains in Letter 212 the tale of Míriel and of the Creation of the Dwarves by Aulë. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he ends his three-week look at the Dwarven kingdom of Khazad-dûm! From Galadriel’s far-sightedness and the innocence of the Dwarves of Belegost, we move deep into the Third Age and the fall of Moria. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Númenor pays the ultimate price for its pride and rebellion as Ar-Pharazôn suddenly discovers he’d rather not have immortality after all in this week’s installment of the Akallabêth on Silmarillion Saturday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The bestest good boy ever has some hard words for Beren before providing the best cosplay advice ever in another episode on The Lay of Leithian on this week’s First Age Friday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once again, no this isn’t a title describing The Man of the West: he doesn’t really wear hats. But Gandalf did, and Frodo missed him — so he sang a lament that we’ll take a look at in this week’s Third Age Thursday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West for another Word-nerd Wednesday: this week’s contestants on ‘Who’s Got the Coolest Name?’ are the Valar of Smithing and of Hunting: Aulë and Oromë. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time to remind those Elves that they’re no better than us as The Man of the West looks at Letter 212 where Tolkien “adds a few lines” about the mythological framework behind all of the legendarium. A few lines, he said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he starts Week 68 of Today’s Tolkien Times with another Middle-earth Map Monday in Moria as we look at more of the names of the Mansions of the Dwarves and a bit of its early history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as we spend just a few more weeks in the Akallabêth, watching the train wreck of Númenor. Ar-Pharazôn ignores the signs and tries to take a thing that can’t be taken on this week’s Silmarillion Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beren bids farewell to everything and prepares to meet his fate alone — but Lúthien has other ideas. Join The Man of the West for another series in The Lay of Lúthien on First-Age Fridays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Legolas sings a sad song about Nimrodel as The Man of the West continues his walk through the poems and songs in The Lord of the Rings in Series 9’s Third Age Thursdays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man of the West begins an 8-week look at the names of the Valar and Maiar — beginning with those exact words, actually. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tolkien tells us that the Fall of Barad-dûr was about 6000 years ago as The Man of the West continues his run through the Letters on Tolkien Tuesdays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he begins Series 9 of the TTT with another Middle-earth Map Monday momentarily on the meritorious megalopolis of Moria. Okay, we’ll stop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he tries not to imagine what goblin smells like, let alone *strong* goblin. We wrap up this special holiday celebration by looking at the second half of that 1932 letter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’re struggling with drawing bears, Karhu might be able to help you. It’s time for the first part of the long 1932 Letter From Father Christmas, as goblins enter the fray! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

North Polar Bear’s cousins — ‘fat’ and ‘white-hair’ — show up and immediately cause the sort of turmoil you’d imagine NPB’s relatives to cause. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices