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Today's Tolkien Times

Today's Tolkien Times

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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-earth history on Silmarillion Saturdays! And on Sundays? That’s what The Prancing Pony Podcast is for! So subscribe to Today’s Tolkien Times and follow us on all our social media channels!© The Prancing Pony Podcast Art Literary History & Criticism Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Week 085 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let These Things Be!

    Week 085 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let These Things Be!
    Jun 28 2025
    Ilúvatar has some words for the Ainur — or, specifically, one very important word. We also get a tangible example of SPBMI in this week’s Silmarillion Saturday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    9 mins
  • Week 085 - First Age Friday: Deathless But Doomed

    Week 085 - First Age Friday: Deathless But Doomed
    Jun 27 2025
    Join The Man of the West for another reading in the story of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin, as Tuor spends months in the wilderness before swans lead him to the halls of Vinyamar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    11 mins
  • Week 085 - Third Age Thursday: But a Doggrel

    Week 085 - Third Age Thursday: But a Doggrel
    Jun 26 2025
    The herb-master in the Houses of Healing delivers a “rhyme of old days”, and Legolas sings of the beauty of Lebennin in this week’s exploration of poems and songs in The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    10 mins
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absolutely love this more than the prancing pony with Tom hillier who is very boring and, Shawn and Alan are brilliant without the extras and the logistics of Tolkien is always surprising and informative 👍.

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