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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 132 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Wolf’s Head

2026/10/14

Join The Man of the West for what a life cost in Anglo-Saxon England, a man with no law on his side, and a Greek turtle with an extra F. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 132 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sinister and Depressing

2026/10/13

Join The Man of the West for a sea monster that’s really an island, and a word that looks like a cat walked across Tolkien’s keyboard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 132 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let It Be So Then

2026/10/13

Join The Man of the West as Elrond decides to go on the Quest himself, and someone may be sent home in a sack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn

2026/09/19

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Friendship Friday: The Loving Strokes of a Dwarf’s Axe

2026/09/18

Join The Man of the West as we look at the friendship of Gimli and Éomer: from the opening threat to the playful parting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Third Age Thursday: Great Kings Take What Is Their Right

2026/09/17

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Laughed Like a Dead Man

2026/09/16

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Greatest of All Delights

2026/09/15

Join The Man of the West as we read a letter Tolkien began in 1964, finished in 1968, and still never sent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Man of His Word

2026/09/14

Join The Man of the West to find out what happens to Númenor — and Middle-earth — if Aldarion just did what he said he’d do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Silmarillion Saturday: This Doom I Add

2026/09/12

Mandos passes sentence on the Noldor, and Fëanor doubles down as The Man of the West nears the end of The Flight of the Noldor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Friendship Friday: Did I Not Say So at the Hornburg

2026/09/11

Join The Man of the West as a promise made at Dunharrow is kept on the Pelennor, and Aragorn hands Éomer back his sister. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Third Age Thursday: The Choice of Their Forefather

2026/09/10

Númenor gets a mountain, a Ban, and a slowly-growing shadow as The Man of the West continues a look at Appendix A from The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not the Day of the Wreckage

2026/09/09

Join The Man of the West as we look at a courtroom in the Ring of Doom, a royal walking stick, a haven, and yet another fence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Tolkien Tuesday: Coming Back to Leaf

2026/09/08

Join The Man of the West as he looks at a tree Tolkien can’t stop drawing, a car, the strangeness of punting, and a very boring textbook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 130 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Thanks to Saruman

2026/09/07

Join The Man of the West for a what-if that Merry & Pippin genuinely don’t want to think about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4.9 out of 5

106 reviews

★★★★★

tofulish 2026/09/25

Bite sized Delight

I love TTT because it’s just a lovely short window into Tolkien scholarship that always brings me a little joy and insight on days when I’m too short ...

★★★★★

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...

★★☆☆☆

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...

★★★★★

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...

★★★★★

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 ...

★☆☆☆☆

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.

★★★★★

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...

★★★★★

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...

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