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Today's Tolkien Times

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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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Selective

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What is Today's Tolkien Times about?

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!

Who hosts Today's Tolkien Times?

Today's Tolkien Times is hosted by Today. The show has published 796 episodes to date.

What has Today's Tolkien Times covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Week 134 - Silmarillion Saturday: Beyond All Jewels" (31 October 2026, 11 minutes), "Week 134 - Friendship Friday: Welcome, Voronwë! I Await You" (30 October 2026, 10 minutes), and "Week 134 - Third Age Thursday: A Thing of Worth Beyond Your Reckoning" (29 October 2026, 10 minutes).

How often does Today's Tolkien Times publish?

Today's Tolkien Times publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 10 minutes across 796 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Today's Tolkien Times?

Booking probability for Today's Tolkien Times is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Today's Tolkien Times requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Today's Tolkien Times's contact route on record: verified email.

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The strongest fits for Today's Tolkien Times are Artists, Writers & Performers. Today's Tolkien Times has an arts audience.

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Today hosts Today's Tolkien Times, an arts podcast with 796 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #804

    Week 134 - Silmarillion Saturday: Beyond All Jewels

    Oct 31, 202611 minS18

    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

  • Episode #803

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

    Oct 30, 202610 minS18

    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

  • Episode #802

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

    Oct 29, 202610 minS11

    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

  • Episode #801

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

    Oct 28, 20269 minS18

    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

  • Episode #800

    Week 134 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nobody Else Has Applied

    Oct 27, 20269 minS18

    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

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  • Episode #777

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

    Oct 26, 202611 minS18

    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

  • Episode #798

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

    Oct 24, 202611 minS18

    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

  • Episode #797

    Week 133 - Friendship Friday: A New Star Shall Arise

    Oct 23, 202610 minS18

    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

  • Episode #796

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

    Oct 22, 202612 minS18

    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...

  • Episode #795

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

    Oct 21, 202610 minS11

    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

  • Episode #794

    Week 133 - Tolkien Tuesday: Picturesque Inscrutability

    Oct 20, 202610 minS18

    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...

  • Episode #793

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

    Oct 19, 202612 minS18

    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

  • Episode #782

    Week 132 - Silmarillion Saturday: What Is Thy Price?

    Oct 17, 202610 minS18

    Join The Man of the West as fourteen weeks of Beren and Lúthien begin without a Lúthien in sight, but with a light in a window and a bad deal with Sauron. (Is there any other kind?) Learn more about your ad choices...

  • Episode #791

    Week 132 - Friendship Friday: Out of Love, and Not Only for His Law

    Oct 16, 20269 minS18

    Join The Man of the West as two brothers hitch a ride with the eagles to a city no Man has seen before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Episode #790

    Week 132 - Third Age Thursday: Hope in Their Disunion

    Oct 15, 202610 minS18

    A kingdom splits three ways, a tower burns, and the Witch-king sees an opening as The Man of the West begins Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Episode #789

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

    Oct 14, 202611 minS18

    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

  • Episode #788

    Week 132 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sinister and Depressing

    Oct 13, 202610 minS18

    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

  • Episode #787

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

    Oct 13, 202612 minS18

    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

  • Episode #786

    Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn

    Sep 19, 202611 minS17

    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

  • Episode #785

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

    Sep 18, 202610 minS17

    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

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