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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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Week 108 - First Age Friday: Time That Yet Lay Hidden

2026/02/06

Join The Man of the West as we finish Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and begin to pull all the strings together to lead us to Eärendil and the War of Wrath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 108 - Third Age Thursday: Middle Man, Not Middle Management

2026/02/05

Anyone can be a mid-level supervisor; it takes someone special to be a Middle Man — or does it? Join The Man of the West as he takes a closer look at Men of the Twilight (no vampires or werewolves involved). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 108 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Let x Be the Number of Rivers in a Land

2026/02/04

Join The Man of the West as we visit yet another land named solely after the number of rivers within it on this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 108 - Tolkien Tuesday: At Least as Capacious as Mine

2026/02/03

The size of your waste paper basket doesn’t really matter; after all, you know you’re not throwing away a letter from Tolkien, even if it is long and pedantic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 108 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Independent ‘Traditions’

2026/02/02

Join The Man of the West in his journeys…um, west… through the southern fiefs of Gondor, as he looks more closely at the home of Imrahil known as Dol Amroth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 107 - Silmarillion Saturday: Bereft of Their Power and Glory

2026/01/31

Some might say it’s a tragedy; others might say it’s about time. We look at the aftermath of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and begin to tie this story together with the months-long journey we took with Tuor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 107 - First Age Friday: Aurë entuluva! Day Shall Come Again!

2026/01/30

The Battle of Unnumbered Tears lives up to its name in spectacular fashion as Fingon meets his gruesome end and the Men of Dor-lómin lay down their lives to protect the secrecy of Gondolin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 107 - Third Age Thursday: Fierce Folk When Roused

2026/01/29

The Man of the West finishes his long look at the Men of Darkness with the Dunlendings, a group of Men that might be better called Middle Men gone wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 107 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Better Late Than… Wandering?

2026/01/28

Join The Man of the West as he finishes off the last of the Five Rivers of Lebennin before discovering what Imrahil and Pippin have in common. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 107 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Feel Inclined to Tell Him So

2026/01/27

We’re sure you do, Professor — and we hope you did! Join The Man of the West as the Professor calls himself — accurately — a natural niggler. Also, a bottle of the Old Winyards? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 107 - Middle-earth Map Monday: About That Beachfront Property…

2026/01/26

Join The Man of the West for a look at Pelargir throughout the ages, before we move into Belfalas and the realm of the Prince of Dol Amroth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 106 - Silmarillion Saturday: Hope Was Renewed

2026/01/24

Granted, only to be smashed under the feet of Uldor and his sons, but it was still renewed. Join The Man of the West for another reading from the Battle of Unnumbered Tears. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 106 - First Age Friday: “and Morgoth trembled…”

2026/01/23

Join The Man of the West as he brings the Nirnaeth Arnoediad to First Age Fridays as well; the quicker to get through it, I suppose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 106 - Third Age Thursday: A People Apart

2026/01/22

It’s time for an honest look at the folk known as the Dunlendings, so join The Man of the West as he goes back to the arrival of the Atani in Beleriand to draw connections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 106 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Calling Count von Count

2026/01/21

Join The Man of the West for an unexpected grammar lesson as we explore the names of the five rivers of Lebennin. Or four of them, at least. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Nate1026p 2024/09/27

Little Bits of Fascination

Currently catching up around Week 37 and I have to say I’ve been really enjoying this. I’m fairly steeped in Tolkien lore yet there have constantly be...

★★★★★

Laurel-Grace 2024/07/31

Bite-sized fun facts perfect for daily listening

Absolutely love the TTT! It’s a perfect complement to the PPP, with the same incredible readings and information, but in smaller pieces, making it goo...

★★☆☆☆

Space Manatee 2024/09/12

For the Love of All that is Good—Less Ads Please

I really like Alan’s content—he is interesting, funny, and makes me love Tolkien more. But my goodness, there are way too many ads in this podcast. So...

★★★★★

Wittyoctopus 2024/07/08

Nice

Like the title says, nice.

★★★★★

mcvicara 2024/02/21

Bite-sized and Very Fun!

These are so informative and so fun to listen to. Every episode is a little nugget of Tolkien goodness, a little treat for every day. If you love all ...

★★★★★

Cthulu’s Song 2023/08/04

Great!

Insightful, entertaining, and well produced. Short snippets to bridge the week between the Prancing Pony Podcast. If you love the work of Tolkien th...

★☆☆☆☆

Shadwell von Bernstein 2023/11/10

For the love of God please stop rolling every R. It’s pretentious

Valardrd. Noldordrd. Feanordrdr. It is so distracting. I love the prancing pony but I can’t pay attention with every bloody r rolled in the readings.

★★★★★

Gaal Dornick 2023/06/22

Terrific!

Today’s Tolkien Times ‘tis terrific! Truly!

★★★★★

BreadButta91 2023/06/21

My daily dose of Tolkien

I love these daily shorts on all things Tolkien. It’s a really great idea and fills a void that many content creators overlook. A mix of lore and actu...

★★★★★

Bohemian_Peasant 2023/06/15

Bite-sized Tolkien

Alan Sisto serves a delicious daily appetizer of Tolkien lore which is always interesting, informative, and entertaining. These bite-sized episodes ar...

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