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Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn
19/09/2026 | 11 mins.
Join The Man of the West as twelve weeks in Valinor come to an end and Fëanor proves he’s exactly who I’ve said he was all along.
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Week 131 - Friendship Friday: The Loving Strokes of a Dwarf’s Axe
18/09/2026 | 10 mins.
Join The Man of the West as we look at the friendship of Gimli and Éomer: from the opening threat to the playful parting.
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Week 131 - Third Age Thursday: Great Kings Take What Is Their Right
17/09/2026 | 11 mins.
Ar-Pharazôn wins a war without a battle and foolishly carries the prize home — join The Man of the West for the Downfall of Númenor and the end of the Second Age.
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Week 131 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Laughed Like a Dead Man
16/09/2026 | 10 mins.
Join The Man of the West for the last words of series 17, including dead man walking, and what a four-year-old in Númenor might call her father.
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Week 131 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Greatest of All Delights
15/09/2026 | 12 mins.
Join The Man of the West as we read a letter Tolkien began in 1964, finished in 1968, and still never sent.
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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!

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