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S18 · E816
Yesterday · 10 min
Week 136 - Silmarillion Saturday: I Must Hold My Bond
Join The Man of the West as Finrod throws down his crown, the sons of Fëanor smile, and twelve Orcs forgot to file their TPS reports with Sauron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E815
Friday · 9 min
Week 136 - Friendship Friday: Lead Me Still On!
Join The Man of the West as Tuor and Voronwë crawl up the Dry River and into the dark, where they turn out not to be alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E814
Thursday · 10 min
Week 136 - Third Age Thursday: Precious Stones Are Pebbles
Join The Man of the West as Gondor reaches its height, and we try to keep our Turambars straight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E813
Wednesday · 9 min
Week 136 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not Worth a Brummingham
Join The Man of the West for a fake coin with a hometown, a glass flagon, and a house-ward who sometimes ends up holding the crown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E812
Tuesday · 10 min
Week 136 - Tolkien Tuesday: Good in Parts
Join The Man of the West as letter 257 wraps up with the real source of Gamgee, and Tolkien apologizing for his garrulity (only four episodes in). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E811
Monday · 11 min
Week 136 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Doom Hung by a Thread
Join The Man of the West as we ask what if Ar-Pharazôn had turned back at the shores of Aman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E810
November 7 · 10 min
Week 135 - Silmarillion Saturday: You Have Devised Cunning Counsel
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E809
November 6 · 10 min
Week 135 - Friendship Friday: Short Is the Sight of Mortal Men
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E808
November 5 · 9 min
Week 135 - Third Age Thursday: Our King, We Call Him
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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E807
November 4 · 10 min
Week 135 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Try to Keep Your Finrods Straight
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E806
November 3 · 9 min
Week 135 - Tolkien Tuesday: Bad Poems About It
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). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E805
November 2 · 9 min
Week 135 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Terribly Narrow Shave
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S18 · E804
October 31 · 10 min
Week 134 - Silmarillion Saturday: Beyond All Jewels
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
S18 · E803
October 30 · 9 min
Week 134 - Friendship Friday: Welcome, Voronwë! I Await You
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
S11 · E802
October 29 · 10 min
Week 134 - Third Age Thursday: A Thing of Worth Beyond Your Reckoning
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
S18 · E801
October 28 · 9 min
Week 134 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ridiculous in Theory and Erroneous in Fact
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
S18 · E800
October 27 · 8 min
Week 134 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nobody Else Has Applied
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
S18 · E777
October 26 · 10 min
Week 134 - Might-Have-Been Monday: It’s a Simple Question, Elf
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
S18 · E798
October 24 · 10 min
Week 133 - Silmarillion Saturday: He Knew No Other Name for Her
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
S18 · E797
October 23 · 9 min
Week 133 - Friendship Friday: A New Star Shall Arise
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

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