402 – All About Soul
Join The Man of the West and The Sage of the South as we continue our futile quest for a consistent storyline in The History of Galadriel and Celeborn.
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401 – She's Got a Way
Join The Man of the West and The Sage of the South as we embark on a six-part journey through The History of Galadriel and Celeborn from Unfinished Tales.
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Be sure to join us at 1pm PT for today's PPP Plays livestream as we celebrate with 10 years with The Man of the West! To join in, you'll want to head over to Twitch or YouTube, and make sure you have notifications on for one or both.
Be sure to join us at 1pm PT for today's PPP Plays livestream as we celebrate with 10 years with The Man of the West! To join in, you'll want to head over to Twitch or YouTube, and make sure you have notifications on for one or both.
Today, February 21st, marks the 10th anniversary of the PPP! Help us celebrate this special occasion by sharing something you love about the podcast, how you discovered it, a favorite episode or moment, etc. in the comments below!
TTT Week 110 - Silmarillion Saturday: All Things Crooked
Húrin’s anger leads him to Doriath, where he throws jewelry at the King and finds himself gently reminded of the truth by Melian.
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TTT Week 110 - First Age Friday: She Was Not Conquered
Join The Man of the West as we begin our time in Of the Ruin of Doriath, watching as Húrin is all-too-briefly reunited with Morwen before his heart turns to “stone within him”.
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TTT Week 110 - Third Age Thursday: Riders Tall and Fair
We finish our look at Men of the Third Age as The Man of the West reviews the history of the Éothéod, their steadfast alliance with Gondor, and their move to the northern vales.
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TTT Week 110 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Surf's Up!
Join The Man of the West for another — this time more thorough — look at the name of Gondor’s hottest surf spot, Belfalas, along with other places we’ve encountered in our journey through Gondor.
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It's PPP Plays time!
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TTT Week 110 - Tolkien Tuesday: Insoluble Metrical Problems
Tolkien admits to a bit of poetic masochism in a letter to his aunt Jane, as The Man of the West continues his look through the Revised and Expanded edition of Tolkien’s Letters.
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TTT Week 110 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The End of Gondor
Join The Man of the West as we reach the far shores and conclude our 21-week journey through the regions of Gondor.
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400 – Starmen
Join The Man of the West and The Sage of the South for some hazy cosmic jive as we conclude our four-episode look at the story of Tal-Elmar.
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TTT Week 109 - Silmarillion Saturday: The First Evil
Join The Man of the West as we accompany a now-free Húrin from Angband to his homelands and then on as he looks for mercy from Turgon.
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TTT Week 109 - First Age Friday: You Lie
Not you, sorry — Morgoth. At least that’s Húrin’s opinion as he continues his defiance of the Dark Lord in this week’s First Age Friday.
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TTT Week 109 - Third Age Thursday: A Bulwark of Gondor
We continue our study of the Men of Middle-earth, this time looking at the ancestors of the Rohirrim, known early on as the Northmen.
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TTT Week 109 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ló and Behold
Join The Man of the West as he looks at the etymology of a few more of the rivers and towns in Gondor, continuing our journey west through the land.
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TTT Week 109 - Tolkien Tuesday: The 'Fan Mail' Keeps On Coming In
And now you know the title isn’t a reference to The Man of the West! Join Alan as he begins a two-part look at another letter Tolkien wrote to his aunt, Jane Neave.
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TTT Week 109 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Angbor the Fearless
Join The Man of the West as he continues his journey through Gondor, looking at Lamedon, the Morthond Vale, and the uniquely-named ridge that separates the two.
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399 – Under Pressure
Join The Man of the West and The Sage of the South as love dares you to care for the story of Tal-Elmar found in The Peoples of Middle-earth.
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TTT Week 108 - Silmarillion Saturday: Hardly Better Than Orcs
Famously not what The Man of the West says about people who don’t listen to the PPP or TTT. Instead, it’s Húrin’s opinion of the Men new to his part of the world.
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TTT Week 108 - First Age Friday: Time That Yet Lay Hidden
Join The Man of the West as we finish Nirnaeth Arnoediad, and begin to pull all the strings together to lead us to Eärendil and the War of Wrath.
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TTT Week 108 - Third Age Thursday: Middle Man, Not Middle Management
Anyone can be a mid-level supervisor; it takes someone special to be a Middle Man — or does it? Join The Man of the West as he takes a closer look at Men of the Twilight (no vampires involved).
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TTT Week 108 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Let x Be the Number of Rivers in a Land
Join The Man of the West as we visit yet another land named solely after the number of rivers within it on this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday!
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TTT Week 108 - Tolkien Tuesday: At Least as Capacious as Mine
The size of your waste paper basket doesn’t really matter; after all, you know you’re not throwing away a letter from Tolkien, even if it is long and pedantic.
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TTT Week 108 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Independent 'Traditions'
Join The Man of the West in his journeys…um, west… through the southern fiefs of Gondor, as he looks more closely at the home of Imrahil known as Dol Amroth.
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398 – Changes
Join The Man of the West and The Sage of the South as we continue our four-part look into Tolkien's unusual story of Tal-Elmar.
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TTT Week 107 - Silmarillion Saturday: Bereft of Their Power and Glory
Some might say it’s a tragedy; others might say it’s about time. We look at the aftermath of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and begin to tie this story together with the months-long journey we took with Tuor.
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