Today's Tolkien Times

Now I’m just feeling called out; fortunately, those words of Tolkien’s were reserved for the storyline of Zimmerman in Letter #210 as we continue our walk through this collection of unmitigated frustration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he extends his Middle-earth Map Monday visit to Rivendell by an extra week, to look at the role it played in the history of the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They just don’t know how good they have it, do they? Join The Man of the West as he watches the diminishing of the bliss of Westernesse in the next installment of the Akallabêth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s all discord and rhyme as Sauron sends a mighty wolf to slay Beren, but Finrod does his thing instead and we all mourn the death of the First Age’s best Elf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West, who’s extending his visit in Rivendell awhile, as he looks at a song that Bilbo describes only as “a song to Elbereth”. That’s like saying the Silmarils are these shiny jewels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do Dana Carvey and the Flammifer of Westernesse have in common? Well, you’ll have to check out this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While that could easily have been the Professor’s response to The Man of the West’s occasional irreverent jokes, it was just one of a dozen slams in this week’s continuing look at the infamous Letter #210 about an adaptation that was, thankfully, never made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West for another Middle-earth Map Monday as we arrive at The Last Homely House, just in time for lunch — and a long talk about the Second Age history of Rivendell! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yearning becomes doubt, doubt becomes secret griping, and secret griping becomes open rebellion as the Men of Númenor begin the long walk to their Downfall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The bestest boy ever speaks for the first time, to help Lúthien escape the clutches of Celegorm, an Elf with nearly as many red flags as his father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man of the West finishes his reading and discussion of Bilbo’s cheeky poem about Eärendil in this week’s Third Age Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dive deep into several words from last week’s Silmarillion Saturday reading as The Man of the West explores the names of one mountain, two cities, and four trees on this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eat Éowyn’s stew? No, but find you as The Man of the West continues to read Tolkien’s Letter 210, eviscerating the storyline for a proposed film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West for another week of Today’s Tolkien Times as he starts out with Middle-earth Map Monday and a return to the journey of Strider and the Hobbits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While an accurate representation of the state of The Man of the West’s mind most days, today’s episode title actually refers to the state of all the wisdom and wonder written in the scrolls and books of Númenor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time to step away from the sorrowful fate of Finrod in Sauron’s dungeons as we hang out with Celegorm and Curufin (boo!) long enough to meet the faithful hound, Huan (yay!) in Canto IX of The Lay of Leithian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he starts his study of Bilbo’s latest chart-topping single, The Song of Eärendil, and learns just how many versions of it there really were. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arvedui finds out what his name really means, as The Man of the West looks at his name and other words from our Middle-earth Map Monday episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s finally time to begin our long look at Tolkien’s views on adaptation as we start Letter 210 and hear from Tom Shippey on the canons of narrative art and the core of the original. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he begins week 59 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a deep dive into the deep freeze of Forodwaith and Forochel on Middle-earth Map Monday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man of the West gets to read about… well, the Men of the West! The Edain are rewarded with wisdom, power, long life, and a new island home, in our first look at the Akallabêth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man of the West returns to the Lay of Leithian for another eight weeks in First Age Fridays, beginning with the epic song battle between Sauron and Finrod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who’s coming up with these episode titles? Today’s Third Age Thursday reading continues with poetry in The Lord of the Rings; this time, with Sam’s recitation of his own epic lay about trolls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man of the West begins this series of Word-nerd Wednesdays with a look at several words from Akallabêth, including a few names for the island itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the Professor continues to make The Man of the West feel called out, the invectives here are meant for a guy by the name of Zimmerman. Tell us what you really think, Professor! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices