The Prancing Pony Podcast
Today's Tolkien Times
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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Jul 10, 2026
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Episodes
Week 099 - First Age Friday: Greater and More Lordly 14.11.2025 10:21
We return to yet another title that could (never) be said of The Man of the West. Join Alan as he drags Tuor through the Sixth and Seventh Gates, only to meet a guy with a diamond helmet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 099 - Third Age Thursday: For a Different Purpose 13.11.2025 10:02
Join The Man of the West as he begins an extended look at yet another group of the Men of Darkness: the Haradrim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 099 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Baragund and Isildur’s Horse? 12.11.2025 10:02
Join The Man of the West as he discovers an unlikely connection in this week’s fan favorite Philology Faire… uh, Word-nerd Wednesday. (You heard the music, didn’t you?) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 099 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Farrago of Nonsense 11.11.2025 10:46
Once considered as a subtitle for Today’s Tolkien Times, today’s title is Tolkien’s response to a continued onslaught of silliness from a Swedish translator of The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 099 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Haughty and Ungenerous 10.11.2025 9:37
Most definitely not describing The Man of the West… right? Join Alan as he begins the 99th week of episodes for Today’s Tolkien Times with a look at the Gondorian capital city — not that one: Osgiliath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 098 - Silmarillion Saturday: So By Perilous Paths 08.11.2025 10:05
In this week’s reading of “I hope I never have to do that”, we learn about the hero Emeldir and how her actions saved the future of Middle-earth. Also, Robin Hood and his… not-likely-merry men. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 098 - First Age Friday: As Moonlight Through a Glimmering Mist 07.11.2025 11:16
Join The Man of the West as we continue our climb through the Orfalch Echor, this time passing through the Gates of Iron and Silver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 098 - Third Age Thursday: Strong and War-hardened 06.11.2025 10:17
Most assuredly not describing The Man of the West, today’s episode continues our look at the Easterlings over the last 500 years of the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 098 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Back Away from the Elvish Dictionary, Sir 05.11.2025 10:13
Join The Man of the West as he walks through the meanings of several important names from our readings in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin — and also proves why he’s not a language consultant for any TV or film adaptations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 098 - Tolkien Tuesday: Presumptuous Impertinence 04.11.2025 8:32
Often presumptuous, sometimes impertinent, but rarely both: The Man of the West continues his look at the beef between Tolkien and the Swedish translator of The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 098 - Middle-earth Map Monday: How about Making-it-up Monday? 03.11.2025 10:37
Join The Man of the West as he begins Week 98 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a look at the port that keeps Minas Tirith going, the Harlond — and one more place of supreme strategic importance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 097 - Silmarillion Saturday: Great Was the Lamentation 01.11.2025 9:17
The sound of PPP and TTT fans when The Man of the West retires? Ha! Join Alan as Fingolfin meets his fate with courage, and Morgoth gets an owie he can’t fix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 097 - First Age Friday: No Escape… and No Returning 31.10.2025 10:03
We continue our journey with Tuor and Voronwë as they make their way from the First Gate up the Orfalch Echor with their guard guide, Elemmakil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 097 - Third Age Thursday: Minds Filled with Hatred 30.10.2025 11:14
Join The Man of the West as we begin a long look at another group of Men of Darkness; from Bór and Ulfang’s arrival in the First Age, the Easterlings and Edain have had a long history of conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 097 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Maybe Avoid the Fen of Serech? 29.10.2025 10:39
Join The Man of the West as he practically sprints through ten place names from our Silmarillion Saturday readings about the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 097 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Should Make Him Apologize 28.10.2025 11:01
The Man of the West is genuinely sorry; fortunately, Tolkien is talking about a Swedish interpreter of The Lord of the Rings instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 097 - Middle-earth Map Monday: I Like Big Butteries 27.10.2025 10:46
Join The Man of the West as he relives a Philology Faire of the past while walking you through the rest of the City of Minas Tirith: the Hall of Feasts, Rath Dínen, stables, barracks, and yes, the buttery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 096 - Silmarillion Saturday: And Morgoth Came 25.10.2025 10:38
The war goes badly for the Noldor, and Fingolfin finds himself knocking on the door of the most powerful being in Middle-earth as we continue our readings in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the (spoilers) Fall of Fingolfin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 096 - First Age Friday: I Should Slay Him 24.10.2025 10:25
Thankfully, nothing to do with The Man of the West in this title: just an acknowledgement that Voronwë has put his old friend in a hard spot as we continue our readings in Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 096 - Third Age Thursday: Men of Twilight and Men of Darkness 23.10.2025 8:43
Join The Man of the West as he begins a dive into a new topic on Third Age Thursdays looking at different cultures of the race of Men in the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 096 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Fëanor Felt Aggrieved 22.10.2025 11:20
What else is new, right? Join The Man of the West for a deep dive into the name of the first High King of the Noldor and a few other words from our recent Silmarillion Saturday readings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 096 - Tolkien Tuesday: Simple-Minded Folk (Like Myself) 21.10.2025 10:06
Join The Man of the West as we continue our look into Tolkien’s letters and discover just how badly the Professor was irritated by a Swedish translator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 096 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Falling Year by Year Into Decay 20.10.2025 10:33
Yet another episode title that could be a quote from the text, or a reference to The Man of the West. Join Alan as he starts Series 13 of Today’s Tolkien Times by continuing his deep dive into the City of Minas Tirith! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 095 - Silmarillion Saturday: All Aboard the Balrog Train 27.09.2025 11:22
Choo-choo. Join The Man of the West as we discuss just how many balrogs there might have been on the southbound train from Angband and point out how Barahir’s rescue of Finrod really saved all of Middle-earth. Thanks for joining the TTT for Series 12 — we’ll be back again after a short break! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Week 095 - First Age Friday: Forgotten In My Own Land 26.09.2025 10:23
There’s always a title that could be read as applying to The Man of the West — but this is just Voronwë trying to make sure he and Tuor don’t get killed… or at least not yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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