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| Week 135 - Silmarillion Saturday: You Have Devised Cunning Counsel | 07 Nov 2026 | 00:10:57 | |
Join The Man of the West as Thingol names his price, Melian isn’t impressed, and Beren holds up a ring to keep the archers of Nargothrond from shooting him.
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| Week 135 - Friendship Friday: Short Is the Sight of Mortal Men | 06 Nov 2026 | 00:10:41 | |
Join The Man of the West as Tuor and Voronwë sneak past an Orc camp under Ulmo’s cloak, after passing within earshot of his cousin Túrin and not knowing it.
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| Week 135 - Third Age Thursday: Our King, We Call Him | 05 Nov 2026 | 00:09:46 | |
Join The Man of the West as we’re reminded of how golf came to exist, and the Shire gets its answer to “When the King comes back.”
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| Week 135 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Try to Keep Your Finrods Straight | 04 Nov 2026 | 00:10:18 | |
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.
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| Week 135 - Tolkien Tuesday: Bad Poems About It | 03 Nov 2026 | 00:09:09 | |
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).
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| Week 135 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Terribly Narrow Shave | 02 Nov 2026 | 00:09:43 | |
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.
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| Week 134 - Silmarillion Saturday: Beyond All Jewels | 31 Oct 2026 | 00:10:52 | |
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.
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| Week 134 - Friendship Friday: Welcome, Voronwë! I Await You | 30 Oct 2026 | 00:09:49 | |
Join The Man of the West as Tuor calls a stranger by name, and starts quoting lines he’s never heard.
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| Week 134 - Third Age Thursday: A Thing of Worth Beyond Your Reckoning | 29 Oct 2026 | 00:10:06 | |
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.
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| Week 134 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ridiculous in Theory and Erroneous in Fact | 28 Oct 2026 | 00:09:23 | |
Join The Man of the West for a Yorkshire headland full of landowners, and a word for “slave” that started out meaning a runner.
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| Week 134 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nobody Else Has Applied | 27 Oct 2026 | 00:08:57 | |
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.
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| Week 134 - Might-Have-Been Monday: It’s a Simple Question, Elf | 26 Oct 2026 | 00:10:48 | |
Join The Man of the West as Hassle asks what if Fëanor had worn the Silmarils to the party in Valmar.
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| Week 133 - Silmarillion Saturday: He Knew No Other Name for Her | 24 Oct 2026 | 00:10:38 | |
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.
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| Week 133 - Friendship Friday: A New Star Shall Arise | 23 Oct 2026 | 00:09:35 | |
Join The Man of the West as Turgon and the brothers meet again on a battlefield, and Maeglin hears something he doesn’t forget.
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| Week 133 - Third Age Thursday: A Strange, Unfriendly People | 22 Oct 2026 | 00:11:49 | |
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.
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| Week 133 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Sweetest Voice in the Woods | 21 Oct 2026 | 00:09:57 | |
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.
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| Week 133 - Tolkien Tuesday: Picturesque Inscrutability | 20 Oct 2026 | 00:10:23 | |
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.
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| Week 133 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let Us Vote | 19 Oct 2026 | 00:12:18 | |
Join The Man of the West as Aragorn picks teams at Parth Galen, and we speculate just how much that breaks the Quest.
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| Week 132 - Silmarillion Saturday: What Is Thy Price? | 17 Oct 2026 | 00:10:18 | |
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?)
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| Week 132 - Friendship Friday: Out of Love, and Not Only for His Law | 16 Oct 2026 | 00:09:19 | |
Join The Man of the West as two brothers hitch a ride with the eagles to a city no Man has seen before.
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| Week 132 - Third Age Thursday: Hope in Their Disunion | 15 Oct 2026 | 00:10:18 | |
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.
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| Week 132 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Wolf’s Head | 14 Oct 2026 | 00:11:11 | |
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.
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| Week 132 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sinister and Depressing | 13 Oct 2026 | 00:10:19 | |
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.
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| Week 132 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let It Be So Then | 13 Oct 2026 | 00:12:21 | |
Join The Man of the West as Elrond decides to go on the Quest himself, and someone may be sent home in a sack.
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| Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn | 19 Sep 2026 | 00:11:29 | |
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.
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| Week 131 - Friendship Friday: The Loving Strokes of a Dwarf’s Axe | 18 Sep 2026 | 00:10:04 | |
Join The Man of the West as we look at the friendship of Gimli and Éomer: from the opening threat to the playful parting.
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| Week 131 - Third Age Thursday: Great Kings Take What Is Their Right | 17 Sep 2026 | 00:11:18 | |
Ar-Pharazôn wins a war without a battle and foolishly carries the prize home — join The Man of the West for the Downfall of Númenor and the end of the Second Age.
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| Week 131 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Laughed Like a Dead Man | 16 Sep 2026 | 00:10:11 | |
Join The Man of the West for the last words of series 17, including dead man walking, and what a four-year-old in Númenor might call her father.
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| Week 131 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Greatest of All Delights | 15 Sep 2026 | 00:12:11 | |
Join The Man of the West as we read a letter Tolkien began in 1964, finished in 1968, and still never sent.
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| Week 131 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Man of His Word | 14 Sep 2026 | 00:11:22 | |
Join The Man of the West to find out what happens to Númenor — and Middle-earth — if Aldarion just did what he said he’d do.
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| Week 130 - Silmarillion Saturday: This Doom I Add | 12 Sep 2026 | 00:12:14 | |
Mandos passes sentence on the Noldor, and Fëanor doubles down as The Man of the West nears the end of The Flight of the Noldor.
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| Week 130 - Friendship Friday: Did I Not Say So at the Hornburg | 11 Sep 2026 | 00:11:13 | |
Join The Man of the West as a promise made at Dunharrow is kept on the Pelennor, and Aragorn hands Éomer back his sister.
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| Week 130 - Third Age Thursday: The Choice of Their Forefather | 10 Sep 2026 | 00:10:48 | |
Númenor gets a mountain, a Ban, and a slowly-growing shadow as The Man of the West continues a look at Appendix A from The Lord of the Rings.
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| Week 130 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not the Day of the Wreckage | 09 Sep 2026 | 00:10:13 | |
Join The Man of the West as we look at a courtroom in the Ring of Doom, a royal walking stick, a haven, and yet another fence.
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| Week 130 - Tolkien Tuesday: Coming Back to Leaf | 08 Sep 2026 | 00:09:57 | |
Join The Man of the West as he looks at a tree Tolkien can’t stop drawing, a car, the strangeness of punting, and a very boring textbook.
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| Week 130 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Thanks to Saruman | 07 Sep 2026 | 00:11:36 | |
Join The Man of the West for a what-if that Merry & Pippin genuinely don’t want to think about.
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| Week 129 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Work of Our Hearts | 05 Sep 2026 | 00:11:41 | |
Olwë tells Fëanor that the swan-ships are his people’s Silmarils, and Fëanor takes them anyway — join The Man of the West for the Kinslaying at Alqualondë.
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| Week 129 - Friendship Friday: Aragorn My Friend | 04 Sep 2026 | 00:10:43 | |
Two swords finally drawn together (pencils down!) at the Hornburg: join The Man of the West for part two of Aragorn and Éomer.
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| Week 129 - Third Age Thursday: Westernmost of All Mortal Lands | 03 Sep 2026 | 00:10:18 | |
Join The Man of the West as Appendix A opens with the only Silmarillion anybody had for 22 years.
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| Week 129 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Number in a Queue | 02 Sep 2026 | 00:11:12 | |
Join The Man of the West for some people names, including one whose name just means they turned up a bit late to the party.
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| Week 129 - Tolkien Tuesday: An Axe-Blow Near the Roots | 01 Sep 2026 | 00:10:24 | |
Join The Man of the West for two letters on the death of C. S. Lewis: a list of mourners written for a daughter, and a grievance struck through for a son.
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| Week 129 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Only for a Moment | 31 Aug 2026 | 00:10:39 | |
Two cousins, one clearing and no words between them — join The Man of the West for the non-existent family reunion, plus a… slight correction from last week.
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| Week 128 - Silmarillion Saturday: Thou Hast Sworn in Vain | 29 Aug 2026 | 00:11:19 | |
Join The Man of the West as Fëanor’s facepalm moment arrives: we’re going to need boats!
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| Week 128 - Friendship Friday: Wingfoot I Name You | 28 Aug 2026 | 00:10:26 | |
A new pairing opens with 100 spears, one drawn sword, and a man betting his life on a stranger he’d just tried to arrest — join The Man of the West for Aragorn and Éomer.
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| Week 128 - Third Age Thursday: Admitted as Friends | 27 Aug 2026 | 00:10:05 | |
Isengard falls without a siege, and Gondor hands the keys to the first person who volunteers: join The Man of the West as the tower is empty no longer.
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| Week 128 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Place Where We Drink | 26 Aug 2026 | 00:09:23 | |
Join The Man of the West for Hall Week: one Old English word that means both ‘fence’ and ‘king,’ and another that connects Théoden’s mead to your amethyst ring.
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| Week 128 - Tolkien Tuesday: As Unbendable as an Ent | 25 Aug 2026 | 00:09:42 | |
Partially describing The Man of the West, but Tolkien couldn’t have known that. Join Alan as letter 250 closes with a confession, a rugby injury, and a grandfather who cannot fathom why anyone finds Anglo-Saxon difficult.
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| Week 128 - Might-Have-Been Monday: At the Moment of Its Failure | 24 Aug 2026 | 00:10:12 | |
One of our patrons asks, “What if Gandalf had survived the bridge?” Join The Man of the West for the answer, plus his first — and last — attempt at fanfic.
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| Week 127 - Silmarillion Saturday: None Shall Break, and None Should Take | 22 Aug 2026 | 00:12:10 | |
Seven swords, one impossible promise, and a besotted people following Fëanor: join The Man of the West for the Oath.
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| Week 127 - Friendship Friday: Dear Friend | 21 Aug 2026 | 00:10:58 | |
Join The Man of the West as Aragorn and Gandalf finish their long friendship without ever saying farewell.
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