Join The Man of the West as he notes the company that Ar-Pharazôn keeps in brooding darkly, while the mightiest King of Númenor decides it’s time to bring home a Dark Lord for safe-keeping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The folk of Nargothrond finally come to their senses about the Sons of Fëanor, while Beren decides it’s time to part ways with Lúthien, in this week’s reading from The Lay of Leithian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We have time for one more poem in Rivendell before leaving with the Company, this time a nostalgic and sorrowful set of verses from Bilbo as he sits beside the fire and thinks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for some word-nerdery on several of the names of Númenóreans from last week’s reading in the Akallabêth for Silmarillion Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Once again, a title that could be speaking about The Man of the West but, thankfully, is instead referring to ‘silly alterations’ made for an adaptation as we continue our time in Tolkien’s Letter #210. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as we venture south of Rivendell for this week’s Middle-earth Map Monday, with the Company arriving at “the country that Men call Hollin”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as a series of Númenórean kings play a game of “who can be worse than their fathers?”. Except for Tar-Palantír, of course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s time for yet more beautiful poetry on First Age Friday as we continue our read through the Lay of Leithian: this time, Draugluin dies, Sauron shapeshifts, and Lúthien looks for her love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
That’s it, no more alliteration today. The Man of the West reads a bit more poetry in The Lord of the Rings, starting with a verse that stymied Men of Gondor, followed by a brief warning from Bilbo about the weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he looks at far more names for Rivendell than you might have expected, and reads a bit about Tolkien’s adventures in the Swiss valley that inspired it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Now I’m just feeling called out; fortunately, those words of Tolkien’s were reserved for the storyline of Zimmerman in Letter #210 as we continue our walk through this collection of unmitigated frustration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he extends his Middle-earth Map Monday visit to Rivendell by an extra week, to look at the role it played in the history of the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They just don’t know how good they have it, do they? Join The Man of the West as he watches the diminishing of the bliss of Westernesse in the next installment of the Akallabêth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s all discord and rhyme as Sauron sends a mighty wolf to slay Beren, but Finrod does his thing instead and we all mourn the death of the First Age’s best Elf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West, who’s extending his visit in Rivendell awhile, as he looks at a song that Bilbo describes only as “a song to Elbereth”. That’s like saying the Silmarils are these shiny jewels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What do Dana Carvey and the Flammifer of Westernesse have in common? Well, you’ll have to check out this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
While that could easily have been the Professor’s response to The Man of the West’s occasional irreverent jokes, it was just one of a dozen slams in this week’s continuing look at the infamous Letter #210 about an adaptation that was, thankfully, never made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for another Middle-earth Map Monday as we arrive at The Last Homely House, just in time for lunch — and a long talk about the Second Age history of Rivendell! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Yearning becomes doubt, doubt becomes secret griping, and secret griping becomes open rebellion as the Men of Númenor begin the long walk to their Downfall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The bestest boy ever speaks for the first time, to help Lúthien escape the clutches of Celegorm, an Elf with nearly as many red flags as his father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Man of the West finishes his reading and discussion of Bilbo’s cheeky poem about Eärendil in this week’s Third Age Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dive deep into several words from last week’s Silmarillion Saturday reading as The Man of the West explores the names of one mountain, two cities, and four trees on this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eat Éowyn’s stew? No, but find you as The Man of the West continues to read Tolkien’s Letter 210, eviscerating the storyline for a proposed film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for another week of Today’s Tolkien Times as he starts out with Middle-earth Map Monday and a return to the journey of Strider and the Hobbits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
While an accurate representation of the state of The Man of the West’s mind most days, today’s episode title actually refers to the state of all the wisdom and wonder written in the scrolls and books of Númenor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s time to step away from the sorrowful fate of Finrod in Sauron’s dungeons as we hang out with Celegorm and Curufin (boo!) long enough to meet the faithful hound, Huan (yay!) in Canto IX of The Lay of Leithian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he starts his study of Bilbo’s latest chart-topping single, The Song of Eärendil, and learns just how many versions of it there really were. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Arvedui finds out what his name really means, as The Man of the West looks at his name and other words from our Middle-earth Map Monday episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s finally time to begin our long look at Tolkien’s views on adaptation as we start Letter 210 and hear from Tom Shippey on the canons of narrative art and the core of the original. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he begins week 59 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a deep dive into the deep freeze of Forodwaith and Forochel on Middle-earth Map Monday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
