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| Week 054 - Second Age Saturday: Too Late, or Too Early | 31 Aug 2024 | 00:10:30 | |
A wizard may never be late, Frodo Baggins, but Aldarion apparently could be. Join The Man of the West for another reading in the Second Age tale of the mariner-king of Númenor.
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| Week 054 - Fandom Friday: Always Optimistic | 30 Aug 2024 | 00:33:42 | |
The Man of the West is joined by The Tolkien Professor himself, Dr. Corey Olsen, for another chat about The Rings of Power and what we can be looking forward to in the upcoming season.
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| Week 053 - Tolkien Tuesday: I’m Not Accurate | 24 Aug 2024 | 00:09:43 | |
While today’s episode title could reflect The Man of the West on nearly any given day, this time it’s a self-deprecating quote from C.S. Lewis, as we continue our look for the fox that may not be there.
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| Week 038 - Tolkien Tuesday: Frightful 18th Century!!! | 09 Apr 2024 | 00:09:15 | |
Don’t blame me: the punctuation is in the original. Time for another close look at the budding friendship between C.S. Lewis and Tolkien; so long as the former doesn’t keep making terrible poetry suggestions.
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| Week 038 - Mailbag Monday: Not the Family Reunion You’re Looking For | 08 Apr 2024 | 00:09:33 | |
Join The Man of the West as he starts the week off talking about one of his favorite characters in the legendarium. And his unfortunate cousin.
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| Week 037 - Second Age Saturday: Cold is the Life of a Mariner’s Wife | 06 Apr 2024 | 00:11:17 | |
So, Aldarion: maybe, I don’t know, stop being a mariner? We continue with the tale of Aldarion and Erendis, the former of whom is beginning to show some troubling traits.
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| Week 037 - First Age Friday: Of Will Defeated, Broken Faith | 05 Apr 2024 | 00:10:34 | |
We return to the tale of Beren as Gorlim visits him in a dream, and he returns to utter devastation. A vow of vengeance follows, and one bad guy definitely gets what’s coming to him.
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| Week 037 - Third Age Thursday: Stop Even Pretending, Gaffer | 04 Apr 2024 | 00:10:00 | |
We return to Hobbiton just as preparations for a massive party are underway: we’re reminded of how important the postal service is, and get a glimpse of hobbit birthday traditions.
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| Week 037 - Word-nerd Wednesday: What’s With the Fat Jokes, Ronald? | 03 Apr 2024 | 00:08:21 | |
We take a closer look at nine different Shire family names in this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday and learn that the majority of them are based on hobbits ummm… enjoying their food.
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| Week 037 - Tolkien Tuesday: Chiefly As a Poet | 02 Apr 2024 | 00:08:26 | |
We return to learn more about Tolkien’s fellow Inkling, C.S. Lewis, and their mutual admiration for “Northernness”. Also, dragons can spoil commutes: just ask Eärendil.
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| Week 037 - Mailbag Monday: Sure, It Kindles Hearts — But Can It Blend? | 01 Apr 2024 | 00:10:14 | |
Join The Man of the West as he kicks off this week in appropriate style — then answers a question about Saruman’s hospitality towards his guest at Orthanc.
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| Week 036 - Second Age Saturday: Sowed the Seeds of Restlessness | 30 Mar 2024 | 00:10:13 | |
Tar-Meneldur’s concerns were well-founded, as it turns out. Join The Man of the West for another reading in the tale of Aldarion and Erendis. Also: we finally, and briefly, meet Erendis.
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| Week 036 - First Age Friday: Have Thy Pay! | 29 Mar 2024 | 00:10:59 | |
If you ever wondered just how cruel Sauron could be, today’s reading in The Lay of Leithian will answer that question.
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| Week 053 - Middle-earth Map Monday: An Old Name… in an Older Language | 24 Aug 2024 | 00:09:19 | |
Join The Man of the West as he begins another week of the TTT with a close look at the town not at all named for a soft, spreadable cheese.
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| Week 036 - Third Age Thursday: We Could Do With a Bit More Queerness | 28 Mar 2024 | 00:09:25 | |
The Gaffer has words for Sandyman yet again, while outlandish folk pull into town — including one rather familiar old man with a long white beard and bushy eyebrows. No, not The Man of the West.
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| Week 036 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Rebuking His Impertinence | 27 Mar 2024 | 00:08:08 | |
Sometimes, the Man of the West imagines his own impertinence would be rebuked, should the Professor be alive to do so. Fortunately, this was just a pedantic proof-reader who didn’t like Tolkien’s spelling.
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| Week 036 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Thought I Was the Only One | 26 Mar 2024 | 00:07:33 | |
Step into a meeting of the Kolbítar and learn why Lewis found it so invigorating. Also, talking about the gods and giants of Asgard until 2:30 in the morning… best college days ever.
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| Week 036 - Mailbag Monday: Short-lived and Weaker Race | 25 Mar 2024 | 00:08:44 | |
Join The Man of the West for a speculative question about Fëanor and what he might have thought about the race of Men — if he bothered to think about them at all.
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| Week 035 - Second Age Saturday: But They Looked Far Away | 23 Mar 2024 | 00:10:04 | |
Aldarion sails on his first voyage, and it changes his life — and the lives of people he hasn’t met yet. Meneldur observes the beginning of a problem, while Vëantur becomes an enabler.
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| Week 035 - First Age Friday: Of Land Bereaved and Lordship Shorn | 22 Mar 2024 | 00:08:56 | |
We return to the beautiful verses of the Lay of Leithian, only to be reminded that they do not always describing things of beauty. Also: a glimpse of the First Age Dirty Dozen.
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| Week 035 - Third Age Thursday: And Jools, By What I’ve Heard | 21 Mar 2024 | 00:09:04 | |
It’s time to eavesdrop at the Ivy Bush as the Gaffer tries to fact-check Sandyman and Old Noakes; where are Community Notes when you need them?
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| Week 035 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ranugad Galbasi, the Font of Hobbit Wisdom | 20 Mar 2024 | 00:09:20 | |
The Man of the West digs through the Nomenclature and the Letters to learn more about the name of everyone’s favorite farmer.
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| Week 035 - Tolkien Tuesday: Beer & Beowulf | 19 Mar 2024 | 00:08:45 | |
We continue our chat about the Inklings and the “literature v. language” divide at Oxford. We ask Professor Tolkien how 1830 hurt his feelings.
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| Week 035 - Mailbag Monday: I Like Big Boats and I Cannot Lie | 18 Mar 2024 | 00:10:19 | |
Join The Man of the West as he begins Week 35 with terrible puns and an unanswerable question about Shawn’s favorite mariner.
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| Week 052 - Second Age Saturday: Myself as a Tame Hound | 24 Aug 2024 | 00:09:17 | |
Join The Man of the West as Aldarion shares his unfiltered opinion with his father, King Meneldur — just as the king is about to make a major announcement regarding the future of Númenor.
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| Week 034 - Second Age Saturday: Ready to Mirth, and Generous | 16 Mar 2024 | 00:10:13 | |
It’s a series filled with long tales, as The Man of the West shifts gears with the first series of Second Age Saturdays. Get your sea-legs on and prepare to set sail as we explore Aldarion & Erendis!
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| Week 034 - First Age Friday: Laughter Merry as the Spring | 15 Mar 2024 | 00:09:31 | |
The Man of the West begins an epic series for this inaugural incarnation of First Age Fridays with a dive into The Lay of Leithian. Can you believe it’s not alliterative?
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| Week 034 - Third Age Thursday: Like Coming Home | 14 Mar 2024 | 00:10:57 | |
A long-expected run through a long-expected chapter begins today as tongues begin to wag in Hobbiton and Bywater. Which would you rather have: (apparently) perpetual youth, or (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth?
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| Week 034 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Running Private Jokes | 13 Mar 2024 | 00:09:27 | |
For today’s word-nerdery, the Man of the West brings in some of Dr. Tom Shippey’s finest, including an observation that Gandalf repeatedly ignores the social code. Also, Tolkien regrets French.
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| Week 034 - Tolkien Tuesday: Liberal Studies Majors, Beware | 12 Mar 2024 | 00:08:08 | |
We take a break from the Letters in Series 5 of the TTT to spend some time at the Bird & Baby with Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and more as we learn about the Inklings. Also, 200 episodes of the TTT!
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| Week 034 - Mailbag Monday: Maybe He Left the Oven On? | 11 Mar 2024 | 00:10:14 | |
Join The Man of the West as he starts out Series 5 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a Mailbag Monday asking a question we honestly haven’t heard before. Also, a reminder of Fëanor being Fëanor.
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| Week 033 - Silmarillion Saturday: Never Drinking That Wine Again | 24 Feb 2024 | 00:10:52 | |
We return to the halls of Menegroth as Angrod throws Fëanor under the bus, Thingol counts to ten, an entire language nopes right out of there, and Galadriel gets nosy.
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| Week 033 - Fandom Friday: The Executive Board of Team Faramir | 23 Feb 2024 | 00:17:20 | |
Join The Man of the West as he welcomes Miranda, the self-proclaimed CEO of Team Faramir to chat about her Tolkien Tuesday videos on Instagram, read-alongs on Discord, and a terrifying trivia contest to come.
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| Week 033 - Third Age Thursday: Felt the Need of Wisdom | 22 Feb 2024 | 00:12:01 | |
It’s time to finish our 8-week journey through the story Of Cirion and Eorl as we Eorl and Cirion part for a time. Also, we look at The Tradition of Isildur: no, not refusing to listen to Elrond… that’s not a tradition.
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| Week 033 - Word-nerd Wednesday: It Presents Me With Difficulty | 21 Feb 2024 | 00:09:27 | |
Time to take a look at what the Rohirrim really called themselves after the Oath of Cirion and Eorl. Also, let’s look at éowords* because éoreds and éoherë are éoawesome* (* - not real words.)
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| Week 052 - Fandom Friday: The Dwarf of the Year Returns | 24 Aug 2024 | 00:23:37 | |
The Man of the West changes up Fandom Fridays for the rest of Series 7, with a focus on Tolkien content creators who were at San Diego ComicCon, getting their take on the upcoming Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Today, Varking Runesong joins us for chat that will inevitably include Dwarves!
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| Week 033 - Tolkien Tuesday: No Pubs Lately | 20 Feb 2024 | 00:09:34 | |
Lift up your heart! And spend one last week in the Revised and Expanded edition of Tolkien’s letters as we look at five shorter letters written to Christopher Tolkien over two months in 1943.
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| Week 033 - Mailbag Monday: Who’s Buried in Elendil’s Tomb? | 19 Feb 2024 | 00:09:16 | |
Join The Man of the West as he starts the last week of TTT’s Series 4 with a question about the beacon on Halifirien — wouldn’t it disturb Elendil’s eternal slumber?
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| Week 032 - Silmarillion Saturday: Literally red-handed | 17 Feb 2024 | 00:09:58 | |
The Man of the West continues his read-through and discussion of the chapter Of the Noldor in Beleriand as Thingol hears, but once again doesn’t really listen to, Melian. Also, great-uncles can be mean!
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| Week 032 - Fandom Friday: What a Lovely Smial | 16 Feb 2024 | 00:15:15 | |
The Man of the West invites the founders of The Grey Havens smial of The Tolkien Society to come and talk about creating and sustaining small regional groups of Tolkien fans.
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| Week 032 - Third Age Thursday: Enyalië! | 15 Feb 2024 | 00:12:48 | |
We finally learn just why the Halifirien is so hali, and why the Whispering Wood, uh, whispers. Get ready for some gorgeous Quenya as Cirion and Eorl speak their pinky promise.
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| Week 032 - Word-nerd Wednesday: What About Frosty the Lossoth? | 14 Feb 2024 | 00:10:35 | |
Join The Man of the West for a deep dive into a beautiful Quenya oath that unexpectedly leads to a (very bad) idea for our next Christmas break.
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| Week 032 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Red Admiral | 13 Feb 2024 | 00:10:05 | |
This week, we take a look at more letters from The Professor to his sons Michael and Christopher, including one that talks about a man who has almost as many names as Aragorn and Túrin!
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| Week 032 - Mailbag Monday: The Nakedest Dragonet | 12 Feb 2024 | 00:13:39 | |
No, that’s not the title of the next Train Your Dragon film. Join The Man of the West as he tries to answer yet another question that has no answer: what is the origin of Tolkien’s dragons?
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| Week 031 - Silmarillion Saturday: For That Woe is Past | 10 Feb 2024 | 00:09:36 | |
I’m not sure Melian shares Galadriel’s optimism on that point. Join The Man of the West as we read more in Of the Noldor in Beleriand and join Melian in asking, “What are the Noldor hiding, and why is it Fëanor?”
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| Week 031 - Fandom Friday: Not Jealous At All, At All — A Conversation with Bill Fliss and Sarah Schaefer | 09 Feb 2024 | 00:23:56 | |
The Man of the West is reminded of just how awesome the J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript exhibit was as he visits with its curators. He also wonders if a career as a Tolkien academic is still possible at his advanced age.
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| Week 052 - Third Age Thursday: Tree-Tangled Middle-Lands | 24 Aug 2024 | 00:10:19 | |
Join The Man of the West as the hobbits encounter Noldorin Exiles in the Shire, singing a beautiful Hymn to Elbereth. We also wonder about Gildor’s parentage.
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| Week 031 - Third Age Thursday: As True Men | 08 Feb 2024 | 00:12:31 | |
The Man of the West continues his reading and discussion of the tale of Cirion and Eorl, this week as the two climb the Hill of Awe. What do you get the man who gives you an entire country?
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| Week 031 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Knows No Season and Withers Not | 07 Feb 2024 | 00:08:16 | |
Why are we going back to Tuor to discuss a word from Cirion and Eorl? Because we can. Join The Man of the West as he looks closely at some, ahem, flowery language.
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| Week 031 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Sum Total of Last Week’s Amusements | 06 Feb 2024 | 00:10:19 | |
The revised and expanded edition of Letters continues to provide wonderful insight into Tolkien and his relationship with his sons. Today, three short letters to Christopher that remind us of the reality of the Blitz, and the importance of remembering birthdays.
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