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Week 136 - Silmarillion Saturday: I Must Hold My Bond
Week 136 - Silmarillion Saturday: I Must Hold My Bond
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- Week 136 - Silmarillion Saturday: I Must Hold My Bond · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 816Join 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…
- Week 136 - Friendship Friday: Lead Me Still On! · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 815Join 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…
- Week 136 - Third Age Thursday: Precious Stones Are Pebbles · 11 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 814Join 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
- Week 136 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not Worth a Brummingham · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 813Join 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…
- Week 136 - Tolkien Tuesday: Good in Parts · 11 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 812Join 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…
- Week 136 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Doom Hung by a Thread · 12 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 811Join 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
- Week 135 - Silmarillion Saturday: You Have Devised Cunning Counsel · 11 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 810Join 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…
- Week 135 - Friendship Friday: Short Is the Sight of Mortal Men · 11 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 809Join 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…
- Week 135 - Third Age Thursday: Our King, We Call Him · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 808Join 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…
- Week 135 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Try to Keep Your Finrods Straight · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 807Join 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…
- Week 135 - Tolkien Tuesday: Bad Poems About It · 9 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 806Join 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…
- Week 135 - Might-Have-Been Monday: A Terribly Narrow Shave · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 805Join 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…
- Week 134 - Silmarillion Saturday: Beyond All Jewels · 11 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 804Join 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…
- Week 134 - Friendship Friday: Welcome, Voronwë! I Await You · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 803Join 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
- Week 134 - Third Age Thursday: A Thing of Worth Beyond Your Reckoning · 10 min · Temporada 11 Episódio 802Join 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…
- Week 134 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ridiculous in Theory and Erroneous in Fact · 9 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 801Join 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…
- Week 134 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nobody Else Has Applied · 9 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 800Join 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…
- Week 134 - Might-Have-Been Monday: It’s a Simple Question, Elf · 11 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 777Join 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
- Week 133 - Silmarillion Saturday: He Knew No Other Name for Her · 11 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 798Join 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…
- Week 133 - Friendship Friday: A New Star Shall Arise · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 797Join 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…
- Week 133 - Third Age Thursday: A Strange, Unfriendly People · 12 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 796Today’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…
- Week 133 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Sweetest Voice in the Woods · 10 min · Temporada 11 Episódio 795Join 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Week 133 - Tolkien Tuesday: Picturesque Inscrutability · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 794Join 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. Learn…
- Week 133 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let Us Vote · 12 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 793Join 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/adchoices
- Week 132 - Silmarillion Saturday: What Is Thy Price? · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 782Join 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…
- Week 132 - Friendship Friday: Out of Love, and Not Only for His Law · 9 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 791Join 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 · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 790A 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 your ad…
- Week 132 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Wolf’s Head · 11 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 789Join 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Week 132 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sinister and Depressing · 10 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 788Join 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. Visit…
- Week 132 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Let It Be So Then · 12 min · Temporada 18 Episódio 787Join 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/adchoices
- Week 131 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let the Ships Burn · 11 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 786Join 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 · 10 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 785Join 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…
- Week 131 - Third Age Thursday: Great Kings Take What Is Their Right · 11 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 784Ar-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 more…
- Week 131 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Laughed Like a Dead Man · 10 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 783Join 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 choices…
- Week 131 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Greatest of All Delights · 12 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 782Join 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 · 11 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 781Join 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…
- Week 130 - Silmarillion Saturday: This Doom I Add · 12 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 780Mandos 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…
- Week 130 - Friendship Friday: Did I Not Say So at the Hornburg · 11 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 779Join 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…
- Week 130 - Third Age Thursday: The Choice of Their Forefather · 11 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 778Númenor 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 choices…
- Week 130 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not the Day of the Wreckage · 10 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 777Join 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…
- Week 130 - Tolkien Tuesday: Coming Back to Leaf · 10 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 776Join 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Week 130 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Thanks to Saruman · 12 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 775Join The Man of the West for a what-if that Merry & Pippin genuinely don’t want to think about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Week 129 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Work of Our Hearts · 12 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 774Olwë 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. Learn more about your…
- Week 129 - Friendship Friday: Aragorn My Friend · 11 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 773Two swords finally drawn together (pencils down!) at the Hornburg: join The Man of the West for part two of Aragorn and Éomer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Week 129 - Third Age Thursday: Westernmost of All Mortal Lands · 10 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 772Join The Man of the West as Appendix A opens with the only Silmarillion anybody had for 22 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Week 129 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Number in a Queue · 11 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 771Join The Man of the West for some people names, including one whose name just means they turned up a bit late to the party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Week 129 - Tolkien Tuesday: An Axe-Blow Near the Roots · 10 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 770Join 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. Learn more about your…
- Week 129 - Might-Have-Been Monday: Only for a Moment · 11 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 769Two 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. Learn more about…
- Week 128 - Silmarillion Saturday: Thou Hast Sworn in Vain · 11 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 768Join The Man of the West as Fëanor’s facepalm moment arrives: we’re going to need boats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Week 128 - Friendship Friday: Wingfoot I Name You · 10 min · Temporada 17 Episódio 767A 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. Learn…
