Today's Tolkien Times

We return to learn more about Tolkien’s fellow Inkling, C.S. Lewis, and their mutual admiration for “Northernness”. Also, dragons can spoil commutes: just ask Eärendil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he kicks off this week in appropriate style — then answers a question about Saruman’s hospitality towards his guest at Orthanc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tar-Meneldur’s concerns were well-founded, as it turns out. Join The Man of the West for another reading in the tale of Aldarion and Erendis. Also: we finally, and briefly, meet Erendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you ever wondered just how cruel Sauron could be, today’s reading in The Lay of Leithian will answer that question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Gaffer has words for Sandyman yet again, while outlandish folk pull into town — including one rather familiar old man with a long white beard and bushy eyebrows. No, not The Man of the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes, the Man of the West imagines his own impertinence would be rebuked, should the Professor be alive to do so. Fortunately, this was just a pedantic proof-reader who didn’t like Tolkien’s spelling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Step into a meeting of the Kolbítar and learn why Lewis found it so invigorating. Also, talking about the gods and giants of Asgard until 2:30 in the morning… best college days ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West for a speculative question about Fëanor and what he might have thought about the race of Men — if he bothered to think about them at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aldarion sails on his first voyage, and it changes his life — and the lives of people he hasn’t met yet. Meneldur observes the beginning of a problem, while Vëantur becomes an enabler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We return to the beautiful verses of the Lay of Leithian, only to be reminded that they do not always describing things of beauty. Also: a glimpse of the First Age Dirty Dozen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time to eavesdrop at the Ivy Bush as the Gaffer tries to fact-check Sandyman and Old Noakes; where are Community Notes when you need them? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man of the West digs through the Nomenclature and the Letters to learn more about the name of everyone’s favorite farmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our chat about the Inklings and the “literature v. language” divide at Oxford. We ask Professor Tolkien how 1830 hurt his feelings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he begins Week 35 with terrible puns and an unanswerable question about Shawn’s favorite mariner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s a series filled with long tales, as The Man of the West shifts gears with the first series of Second Age Saturdays. Get your sea-legs on and prepare to set sail as we explore Aldarion & Erendis! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man of the West begins an epic series for this inaugural incarnation of First Age Fridays with a dive into The Lay of Leithian. Can you believe it’s not alliterative? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A long-expected run through a long-expected chapter begins today as tongues begin to wag in Hobbiton and Bywater. Which would you rather have: (apparently) perpetual youth, or (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For today’s word-nerdery, the Man of the West brings in some of Dr. Tom Shippey’s finest, including an observation that Gandalf repeatedly ignores the social code. Also, Tolkien regrets French. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We take a break from the Letters in Series 5 of the TTT to spend some time at the Bird & Baby with Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and more as we learn about the Inklings. Also, 200 episodes of the TTT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he starts out Series 5 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a Mailbag Monday asking a question we honestly haven’t heard before. Also, a reminder of Fëanor being Fëanor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We return to the halls of Menegroth as Angrod throws Fëanor under the bus, Thingol counts to ten, an entire language nopes right out of there, and Galadriel gets nosy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he welcomes Miranda, the self-proclaimed CEO of Team Faramir to chat about her Tolkien Tuesday videos on Instagram, read-alongs on Discord, and a terrifying trivia contest to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time to finish our 8-week journey through the story Of Cirion and Eorl as we Eorl and Cirion part for a time. Also, we look at The Tradition of Isildur: no, not refusing to listen to Elrond… that’s not a tradition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time to take a look at what the Rohirrim really called themselves after the Oath of Cirion and Eorl. Also, let’s look at éowords* because éoreds and éoherë are éoawesome* (* - not real words.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lift up your heart! And spend one last week in the Revised and Expanded edition of Tolkien’s letters as we look at five shorter letters written to Christopher Tolkien over two months in 1943. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices