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The Today's Tolkien Times podcast is an insightful and entertaining daily show that provides short snippets of information about J.R.R. Tolkien and his works. Hosted by Alan Sisto, this well-produced podcast serves as a bridge between episodes of the Prancing Pony Podcast, offering listeners a daily dose of Tolkien goodness to fill their week. Whether you're a die-hard fan of Tolkien or just beginning to explore his works, this podcast offers something for everyone.
One of the best aspects of The Today's Tolkien Times podcast is the variety of content it provides. Each episode focuses on a specific aspect of Tolkien's sub-creation, philology, or biography, allowing listeners to delve into various topics related to the author and his works. From discussions about the lore and background of Middle-earth to insights into Tolkien's life and inspirations, there is always something interesting and informative to discover. Additionally, Alan's delivery style is engaging and easy to listen to, making it enjoyable for both casual listeners and dedicated fans.
Another great aspect of this podcast is its production quality. The episodes are well-edited and professionally produced, creating a seamless listening experience. Whether you're listening on your commute or taking a quick break during the day, the bite-sized format makes it easy to fit into your busy schedule. Furthermore, Alan's extensive knowledge on all things Tolkien shines through in each episode, providing listeners with accurate and in-depth information.
While there aren't many negative aspects to The Today's Tolkien Times podcast, one minor drawback may be its brevity. Each episode is less than 10 minutes long, which may leave some listeners craving more content or wanting a deeper dive into certain topics. However, this can also be seen as an advantage for those who prefer shorter episodes that can be enjoyed on-the-go.
In conclusion, The Today's Tolkien Times podcast offers a fantastic daily dose of all things Tolkien. With its mix of insightful content, entertaining delivery, and well-produced episodes, it is a must-listen for anyone who loves the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to the world of Middle-earth, this podcast is sure to keep you engaged and excited about all things Tolkien.
And The Man of the West answered crying “Auta i lómë! The night is passing!” Or maybe that was the army of Fingon when they heard the trumpet of Turgon, who finally decided to do something. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Man of the West is wondering who's behind these episode titles. Tuor leads the refugees of Gondolin to safety before deciding it's time to sail off into the sunset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Perhaps this is a reference to jury duty for The Man of the West. Or perhaps it's part of Isildur's curse on the Men of the Mountains, as we continue our look at the Men of Darkness in the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Man of the West is far, far too familiar with the truth of today's title, which is actually Tolkien's explanation for some of the place names in Gondor on this week's Word-nerd Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as we have to carefully dissect and analyze Professor Tolkien's words to really understand what he's saying. Or not at all, really. Watch out, Disney! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Good heavens, no — not that weed: athelas, of course. It's also a quote from Ioreth, not The Man of the West — who is here to take you up into the vales of Lossarnach on this week's Middle-earth Map Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as Fëanor's foolish oath bears unpleasant fruit more than 500 years later as we begin our reading about the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
While it is true that The Man of the West isn't what he used to be, I'd hardly use ‘fell to ruin'. No, that's just a Balrog of Morgoth and our old friend Glorfindel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We continue our look at the Men of Darkness in the Third Age as The Man of the West concludes his time studying the Corsairs of Umbar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for some different word-nerdery, this time on some English-sounding names that aren't especially English. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Continuing our look at Tolkien's 1961 letter to his Aunt Jane, we find an argument for why a word like ‘argent' is beautiful even before it is understood. Totally unlike The Man of the West, of course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he begins the 14th Series of Today's Tolkien Times with a look at the region of South Ithilien. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yes, that's The Man of the West. But NPB means that to refer to Ilbereth, the secretary for Father Christmas, who writes the largest portion of this second half of the 1937 letter. What does roast Polar Bear taste like? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Father Christmas wishes Tolkien a speedy recovery, and explains that he's already giving away ‘second editions' of The Hobbit just three months after its publication, as we look at the first part of the 1937 letter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for the 1936 letter as Father Christmas introduces us to a new member of Team North Pole, and Polar Bear takes a very long bath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's 1935, and Father Christmas grows concerned about the goblins, expecting trouble with them soon — but hey, elvish magic sparkler spears should do the trick, right? Right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
While The Man of the West is sometimes guilty of such trouble, today's title refers to guests at the North Pole in 1934: Polar Bear's young cousins, Paksu and Valkotukka! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's time for our holiday tradition of reading from Letters From Father Christmas, this time starting in 1933 as Polar Bear continues his goblin-smashing ways! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No, today's title… oh, you know the joke by now. Join The Man of the West as we conclude our time in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin from The Silmarillion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Just like yesterday, today's title still isn't a reference to The Man of the West — though it's a bit more obvious this time. No, today's the day we meet baby Eärendil, the half-elf who will save the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No, I promise today's title isn't a reference to The Man of the West. Instead, it's time to take a look at two more groups of the Men of Darkness: the Black Númenóreans and the Corsairs of Umbar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We step away from the First Age to do a very deep dive on a single word from our Middle-earth Map Monday discussion, and learn more about trees as a bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he begins a look at another letter from Tolkien to his Aunt Jane; turns out sorting through old poetry is better than the rest of the things Tolkien should be doing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I'd say about two days, if episodes of Today's Tolkien Times are anything to go by. Join The Man of the West as he begins the last week of Series 13 by looking at the site of what Tolkien says is the eucatastrophe of the whole story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he spends a year in Gondolin with the brothers Húrin and Huor, only to get left at the airport in the middle of the night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tuor finally brings his message to Turgon; the King doesn't take his advice, but does allow him to marry his daughter, as we shift chapters in our story of Tuor and Gondolin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for the third episode on the Haradrim, as we look at the actions of the Southrons in The War of the Ring in another of our deep dives of the Men of Darkness in the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
No, this isn't The Man of the West saying his son needs a haircut; today's Word-nerd Wednesday looks at the Sindarin names of some of the new arrivals in Beleriand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Man of the West says the same about TTT episodes, but one of today's letters sees the Professor say this about some of his poems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to the start of the next 100 weeks of Today's Tolkien Times, with a Middle-earth Map Monday spent in the “window of some elven-tower, curtained with threaded jewels”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he celebrates his 600th episode of Today's Tolkien Times, just in time to see Húrin and Huor rescued and taken to Gondolin! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as we finally get Tuor's passport stamped for Gondolin — and we learn a few more things that never made it off the scrap of paper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Part two of our look at the Haradrim in this series on Men of Darkness covers the long, conflict-filled history of the Third Age as the Men of the Harad find themselves allied with Black Númenóreans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he discovers there's a lot less word-nerdery on Barahir's companions than he'd expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We move on from Tolkien's beef with the Swedish translator (finally), with a look at another of Tolkien's letters to Rhona Beare, with this one feeling a bit like an early Word-nerd Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for a milestone week of Today's Tolkien Times, as he starts with a visit to the region of North Ithilien on Middle-earth Map Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he continues this series' read-through Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin, as Sauron captures a strategic location. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We return to yet another title that could (never) be said of The Man of the West. Join Alan as he drags Tuor through the Sixth and Seventh Gates, only to meet a guy with a diamond helmet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he begins an extended look at yet another group of the Men of Darkness: the Haradrim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he discovers an unlikely connection in this week's fan favorite Philology Faire… uh, Word-nerd Wednesday. (You heard the music, didn't you?) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Once considered as a subtitle for Today's Tolkien Times, today's title is Tolkien's response to a continued onslaught of silliness from a Swedish translator of The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Most definitely not describing The Man of the West… right? Join Alan as he begins the 99th week of episodes for Today's Tolkien Times with a look at the Gondorian capital city — not that one: Osgiliath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this week's reading of “I hope I never have to do that”, we learn about the hero Emeldir and how her actions saved the future of Middle-earth. Also, Robin Hood and his… not-likely-merry men. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as we continue our climb through the Orfalch Echor, this time passing through the Gates of Iron and Silver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Most assuredly not describing The Man of the West, today's episode continues our look at the Easterlings over the last 500 years of the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he walks through the meanings of several important names from our readings in Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin — and also proves why he's not a language consultant for any TV or film adaptations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Often presumptuous, sometimes impertinent, but rarely both: The Man of the West continues his look at the beef between Tolkien and the Swedish translator of The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he begins Week 98 of Today's Tolkien Times with a look at the port that keeps Minas Tirith going, the Harlond — and one more place of supreme strategic importance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The sound of PPP and TTT fans when The Man of the West retires? Ha! Join Alan as Fingolfin meets his fate with courage, and Morgoth gets an owie he can't fix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We continue our journey with Tuor and Voronwë as they make their way from the First Gate up the Orfalch Echor with their guard guide, Elemmakil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as we begin a long look at another group of Men of Darkness; from Bór and Ulfang's arrival in the First Age, the Easterlings and Edain have had a long history of conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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