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Week 133 - Third Age Thursday: A Strange, Unfriendly People

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

Week 133 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Sweetest Voice in the Woods

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Week 133 - Tolkien Tuesday: Picturesque Inscrutability

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. L

Week 133 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let Us Vote

Join The Man of the West as Aragorn picks teams at Parth Galen, and we speculate just how much that breaks the Quest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm

Week 132 - Silmarillion Saturday: What Is Thy Price?

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 o

Week 132 - Friendship Friday: Out of Love, and Not Only for His Law

Join The Man of the West as two brothers hitch a ride with the eagles to a city no Man has seen before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 132 - Third Age Thursday: Hope in Their Disunion

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. Learn more about yo

Week 132 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Wolf’s Head

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Week 132 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sinister and Depressing

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. Learn more about your ad choices. V

Week 132 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let It Be So Then

Join The Man of the West as Elrond decides to go on the Quest himself, and someone may be sent home in a sack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi

Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

Week 131 - Friendship Friday: The Loving Strokes of a Dwarf’s Axe

Join The Man of the West as we look at the friendship of Gimli and Éomer: from the opening threat to the playful parting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon

Week 131 - Third Age Thursday: Great Kings Take What Is Their Right

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. Learn m

Week 131 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Laughed Like a Dead Man

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. Learn more about your ad

Week 131 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Greatest of All Delights

Join The Man of the West as we read a letter Tolkien began in 1964, finished in 1968, and still never sent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 131 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Man of His Word

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap

Week 130 - Silmarillion Saturday: This Doom I Add

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me

Week 130 - Friendship Friday: Did I Not Say So at the Hornburg

Join The Man of the West as a promise made at Dunharrow is kept on the Pelennor, and Aragorn hands Éomer back his sister. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon

Week 130 - Third Age Thursday: The Choice of Their Forefather

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. Learn more about your ad cho

Week 130 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not the Day of the Wreckage

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg