Today's Tolkien Times
Hosted by The Man of the West · The Prancing Pony Podcast
4.9from 243 ratings
- 787
- Episodes
- 178
- Transcribed
- 243
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 151K
- YouTube views
About Today's Tolkien Times
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!
- Publisher
- The Prancing Pony Podcast
- Category
- arts · news · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 May 2023
- Latest episode
- 19 Sept 2026
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178 of 787 episodes have a transcript.
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Week 131 - Friendship Friday: The Loving Strokes of a Dwarf’s Axe
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Week 131 - Third Age Thursday: Great Kings Take What Is Their Right
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Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn
Published 19 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But Feanor, knowing all that was said, took counsel with his sons, and two courses only they saw to escape from Araman and come into Endor, by the straits or by ship. But the Helcaraxa they deemed impassable, whereas the ships were too few. Many had been lost upon their long journey, and there remained now not enough to bear across all the great hosts together. yet none were willing to abide upon the western coast while others were ferried first. Already the fear of treachery was awake among the Noldor. Therefore it came into the hearts of Feanor and his sons to seize all the ships and depart suddenly, for they had retained the mastery of the fleet since the Battle of the Haven, and it was manned only by those who had fought there and were bound to Feanor. […]
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- 4.9 / 5
- 105 ratings
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- 138 ratings
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