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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 135 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Try to Keep Your Finrods Straight

2026/11/04

Join The Man of the West for a hidden city whose name started out as a singing stone, and a word that meant “knowing” before it meant scheming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 135 - Tolkien Tuesday: Bad Poems About It

2026/11/03

Join The Man of the West as the Necromancer gets a promotion, and Tolkien’s recurring dream of a giant wave leads to Númenor (shame we don’t get to see the bad poems). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 135 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Terribly Narrow Shave

2026/11/02

Join The Man of the West as Erica asks what if Frodo had died on Weathertop (wraithified, to be precise), and who ends up holding the Ring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 134 - Silmarillion Saturday: Beyond All Jewels

2026/10/31

Join The Man of the West as Lúthien sings in the spring, Daeron the minstrel is a tattle-tale, and Beren tells her father exactly what he’s after. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 134 - Friendship Friday: Welcome, Voronwë! I Await You

2026/10/30

Join The Man of the West as Tuor calls a stranger by name, and starts quoting lines he’s never heard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 134 - Third Age Thursday: A Thing of Worth Beyond Your Reckoning

2026/10/29

Join The Man of the West as Arvedui ignores the Lossoth’s warning about the sea-monster, and the ring that has quite the family tree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 134 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ridiculous in Theory and Erroneous in Fact

2026/10/28

Join The Man of the West for a Yorkshire headland full of landowners, and a word for “slave” that started out meaning a runner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 134 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nobody Else Has Applied

2026/10/27

Join The Man of the West for episode 800 of Today’s Tolkien Times; plus how an ill nun played a key role in the publication of The Hobbit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 134 - Might-Have-Been Monday: It’s a Simple Question, Elf

2026/10/26

Join The Man of the West as Hassle asks what if Fëanor had worn the Silmarils to the party in Valmar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 133 - Silmarillion Saturday: He Knew No Other Name for Her

2026/10/24

Join The Man of the West as Beren is driven out of Dorthonion, crosses the Mountains of Terror, and meets a girl who leaves him speechless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 133 - Friendship Friday: A New Star Shall Arise

2026/10/23

Join The Man of the West as Turgon and the brothers meet again on a battlefield, and Maeglin hears something he doesn’t forget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 133 - Third Age Thursday: A Strange, Unfriendly People

2026/10/22

Today’s title certainly does not apply to the listeners of the TTT! Join The Man of the West as he continues Appendix A and the Lossoth seem unimpressed by a king’s shiny things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 133 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Sweetest Voice in the Woods

2026/10/21

Join The Man of the West for two hobbits with Old English names, fields named for a flower, and a bed that’s sometimes a grave… or a beer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 133 - Tolkien Tuesday: Picturesque Inscrutability

2026/10/20

Join The Man of the West as Tolkien dreams of an Elvish typewriter (don’t we all?), complains about the band three doors down, and starts explaining where it all began. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 133 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let Us Vote

2026/10/19

Join The Man of the West as Aragorn picks teams at Parth Galen, and we speculate just how much that breaks the Quest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4.9 out of 5

107 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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