Today's Tolkien Times
Episodes
Week 036 - Second Age Saturday: Sowed the Seeds of Restlessness
30 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tar-Meneldur’s concerns were well-founded, as it turns out. Join The Man of the West for another reading in the tale of Aldarion and Erendis. Also: ...
Week 036 - First Age Friday: Have Thy Pay!
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you ever wondered just how cruel Sauron could be, today’s reading in The Lay of Leithian will answer that question. Learn more about your ad choi...
Week 036 - Third Age Thursday: We Could Do With a Bit More Queerness
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Gaffer has words for Sandyman yet again, while outlandish folk pull into town — including one rather familiar old man with a long white beard an...
Week 036 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Rebuking His Impertinence
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, the Man of the West imagines his own impertinence would be rebuked, should the Professor be alive to do so. Fortunately, this was just a pe...
Week 036 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Thought I Was the Only One
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Step into a meeting of the Kolbítar and learn why Lewis found it so invigorating. Also, talking about the gods and giants of Asgard until 2:30 in the...
Week 036 - Mailbag Monday: Short-lived and Weaker Race
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West for a speculative question about Fëanor and what he might have thought about the race of Men — if he bothered to think abo...
Week 035 - Second Age Saturday: But They Looked Far Away
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aldarion sails on his first voyage, and it changes his life — and the lives of people he hasn’t met yet. Meneldur observes the beginning of a prob...
Week 035 - First Age Friday: Of Land Bereaved and Lordship Shorn
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We return to the beautiful verses of the Lay of Leithian, only to be reminded that they do not always describing things of beauty. Also: a glimpse of ...
Week 035 - Third Age Thursday: And Jools, By What I’ve Heard
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time to eavesdrop at the Ivy Bush as the Gaffer tries to fact-check Sandyman and Old Noakes; where are Community Notes when you need them? Lear...
Week 035 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ranugad Galbasi, the Font of Hobbit Wisdom
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West digs through the Nomenclature and the Letters to learn more about the name of everyone’s favorite farmer. Learn more about your ...
Week 035 - Tolkien Tuesday: Beer & Beowulf
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our chat about the Inklings and the “literature v. language” divide at Oxford. We ask Professor Tolkien how 1830 hurt his feelings. Le...
Week 035 - Mailbag Monday: I Like Big Boats and I Cannot Lie
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he begins Week 35 with terrible puns and an unanswerable question about Shawn’s favorite mariner. Learn more about your ...
Week 034 - Second Age Saturday: Ready to Mirth, and Generous
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a series filled with long tales, as The Man of the West shifts gears with the first series of Second Age Saturdays. Get your sea-legs on and pr...
Week 034 - First Age Friday: Laughter Merry as the Spring
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West begins an epic series for this inaugural incarnation of First Age Fridays with a dive into The Lay of Leithian. Can you believe it...
Week 034 - Third Age Thursday: Like Coming Home
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A long-expected run through a long-expected chapter begins today as tongues begin to wag in Hobbiton and Bywater. Which would you rather have: (appare...
Week 034 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Running Private Jokes
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For today’s word-nerdery, the Man of the West brings in some of Dr. Tom Shippey’s finest, including an observation that Gandalf repeatedly ignores...
Week 034 - Tolkien Tuesday: Liberal Studies Majors, Beware
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We take a break from the Letters in Series 5 of the TTT to spend some time at the Bird & Baby with Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and more as ...
Week 034 - Mailbag Monday: Maybe He Left the Oven On?
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he starts out Series 5 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a Mailbag Monday asking a question we honestly haven’t heard befo...
Week 033 - Silmarillion Saturday: Never Drinking That Wine Again
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We return to the halls of Menegroth as Angrod throws Fëanor under the bus, Thingol counts to ten, an entire language nopes right out of there, and Ga...
Week 033 - Fandom Friday: The Executive Board of Team Faramir
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he welcomes Miranda, the self-proclaimed CEO of Team Faramir to chat about her Tolkien Tuesday videos on Instagram, read-a...
Week 033 - Third Age Thursday: Felt the Need of Wisdom
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time to finish our 8-week journey through the story Of Cirion and Eorl as we Eorl and Cirion part for a time. Also, we look at The Tradition of...
Week 033 - Word-nerd Wednesday: It Presents Me With Difficulty
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time to take a look at what the Rohirrim really called themselves after the Oath of Cirion and Eorl. Also, let’s look at éowords* because éoreds a...
Week 033 - Tolkien Tuesday: No Pubs Lately
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lift up your heart! And spend one last week in the Revised and Expanded edition of Tolkien’s letters as we look at five shorter letters written to C...
Week 033 - Mailbag Monday: Who’s Buried in Elendil’s Tomb?
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he starts the last week of TTT’s Series 4 with a question about the beacon on Halifirien — wouldn’t it disturb Elend...
Week 032 - Silmarillion Saturday: Literally red-handed
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West continues his read-through and discussion of the chapter Of the Noldor in Beleriand as Thingol hears, but once again doesn’t rea...
Week 032 - Fandom Friday: What a Lovely Smial
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West invites the founders of The Grey Havens smial of The Tolkien Society to come and talk about creating and sustaining small regional...
Week 032 - Third Age Thursday: Enyalië!
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We finally learn just why the Halifirien is so hali, and why the Whispering Wood, uh, whispers. Get ready for some gorgeous Quenya as Cirion and Eorl ...
Week 032 - Word-nerd Wednesday: What About Frosty the Lossoth?
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West for a deep dive into a beautiful Quenya oath that unexpectedly leads to a (very bad) idea for our next Christmas break. Learn...
Week 032 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Red Admiral
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we take a look at more letters from The Professor to his sons Michael and Christopher, including one that talks about a man who has almost ...
Week 032 - Mailbag Monday: The Nakedest Dragonet
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No, that’s not the title of the next Train Your Dragon film. Join The Man of the West as he tries to answer yet another question that has no answer:...
Week 031 - Silmarillion Saturday: For That Woe is Past
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m not sure Melian shares Galadriel’s optimism on that point. Join The Man of the West as we read more in Of the Noldor in Beleriand and join Mel...
Week 031 - Fandom Friday: Not Jealous At All, At All — A Conversation with Bill Fliss and Sarah Schaefer
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West is reminded of just how awesome the J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript exhibit was as he visits with its curators. He also ...
Week 031 - Third Age Thursday: As True Men
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West continues his reading and discussion of the tale of Cirion and Eorl, this week as the two climb the Hill of Awe. What do you get t...
Week 031 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Knows No Season and Withers Not
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we going back to Tuor to discuss a word from Cirion and Eorl? Because we can. Join The Man of the West as he looks closely at some, ahem, flow...
Week 031 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Sum Total of Last Week’s Amusements
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The revised and expanded edition of Letters continues to provide wonderful insight into Tolkien and his relationship with his sons. Today, three short...
Week 031 - Mailbag Monday: Aren’t You a Little Underwhelming for a Maia?
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he attempts to answer an unanswerable question about the Goblins of the Misty Mountains and their recognition of important...
Week 030 - Silmarillion Saturday: Love Not Too Well
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You know the rest, folks — and if you don’t, that’s why you’re listening to this show! Join The Man of the West as we open the chapter Of the ...
Week 030 - Fandom Friday: A Númenórean Sea Shanty - Phil Dean
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome another of Team PPP to today’s Fandom Friday as Phil Dean joins Alan to chat about his experience as a Númenórean guardsman on the firs...
Week 030 - Third Age Thursday: The Whispering Wood
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West reads more in the story of Cirion and Eorl, relishing in the mystery of Gondorian forestry policy, as well as why Gondor’s zonin...
Week 030 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Beacons of Gondor Are… Etymologically Interesting
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Amon Dîn to Halifirien, the Man of the West takes a deep dive into the names of each of the beacons of Gondor — well, those of northern Gondor...
Week 030 - Tolkien Tuesday: Be Of Good Heart
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We return to the revised and expanded edition of Tolkien’s letters to take a closer look at a couple of letters written to his son, Michael. Tolkien...
Week 030 - Mailbag Monday: Given to Rhetorical Superlatives
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he answers a question about who’s older than who… thankfully, he’s not answering a question about his own age. Learn...
Week 029 - Silmarillion Saturday: Save One Only
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time to conclude our readings through Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor as we finally arrive at that hiding the title has been sugg...
Week 029 - Fandom Friday: The Tolkienist’s Take on Tolkien Talks and Tolkien Tage: A Visit with Marcel Aubron-Bülles
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West in welcoming one of the OG Tolkien bloggers to the TTT. Marcel’s the busiest guy in the Tolkien fandom, it seems, but he ha...
Week 029 - Third Age Thursday: Rochon Methestel
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus points if you get that reference without looking. The Man of the West continues his ride through the tale of Cirion and Eorl, as the Éothéod r...
Week 029 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Fierce and Fabled
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for another double word-nerd Wednesday as The Man of the West introduces you to the valiant steed of Eorl and the race of horses he sired....
Week 029 - Tolkien Tuesday: Not Too Quick in the Uptake
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We open up the Revised and Expanded edition of Letters to take a deep dive into one entirely new letter that Tolkien wrote to his good friend, E.V. Go...
Week 029 - Mailbag Monday: Tiptoe To the Mewlips
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he reluctantly answers a mailbag question about some of the creepiest creatures Professor Tolkien ever imagined: the myste...
Week 028 - Silmarillion Saturday: As He Ever Shall Be
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Arien would need a restraining order against Tilion if it weren’t for her ability to burn him like a slice of toast. Join The Man of the West as he ...
Week 028 - Fandom Friday: Sara It Was, and Dr. Brown Also
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West is joined by one of his esteemed cohort of co-hosts, Dr. Sara Brown, to talk about Éowyn, Discworld, and anything else she darn w...
Week 028 - Third Age Thursday: Riders of Great Courage
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about the migration of the Éothéod, the Stewardship of Cirion, and the discovery that a huge force of enemies was preparing an attack on Gondo...
Week 028 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Númenoréan Month or Prescription Medication?
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West for a closer look at the Kings’ Reckoning, the calendar system used for over 5,000 years by the Men of Númenor and Gondor....
Week 028 - Tolkien Tuesday: Grim Grinning… Drawer Handles?
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time to go back to more of the Revised and Expanded edition of Tolkien’s Letters as we look at some letters dated around the time of the publ...
Week 028 - Mailbag Monday: Túrin, Túna, and, uh… Celeborn
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he answers a mailbag question about a legendary Norwegian bowman and his possible inspiration of one of Tolkien’s most t...
Week 027 - Silmarillion Saturday: As a Naked Flame
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about Arien and Tilion, the Maiar chosen to carry the Sun and the Moon through the skies of Arda, as we continue our journey through Of the Sun ...
Week 027 - Fandom Friday: Pity, Power, and a Chat with Tom Hillman
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he welcomes Tom Hillman, author of Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring. Ah-ha moments abound as Alan and Tom chat. Learn mor...
Week 027 - Third Age Thursday: Which None Could Then Foresee
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time to continue our readings in the story of Cirion and Eorl, even if we’re still at the part of Calimehtar and Marhwini. At least Cirion an...
Week 027 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The (Great) Green Region
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have time for two words on this Word-nerd Wednesday: the first is the name of the 30th King of Gondor, and the other is the name of a land that wou...
Week 027 - Tolkien Tuesday: Hi Dad, Send Cash
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We take a look at three letters that Tolkien wrote to his sons: school grades, mom guilt, BBC criticism, a hand injury, and a plea for cash to a poor ...
Week 027 - Mailbag Monday: Gandalf as a Dwarf?
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he answers a speculative question about the form that the wizards took when they came to Middle-earth. Now I’m picturing...
Week 026 - Silmarillion Saturday: Dust Off the Piñata
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A study of heavenly bodies begins with the aftermath of Fëanor storming out of the house, slamming the door, stealing the neighbor’s car, and peeli...
Week 026 - Fandom Friday: The Full English: Chris Newton from A Book At Breakfast
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he welcomes fellow bibliophile and Tolkien fan Chris Newton, and learn about a new podcast you might want to listen to. Ch...
Week 026 - Third Age Thursday: And You Thought You’d Avoid Gothic
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West wanted to make a joke here about the Émo-théod and why their early names were Goth-ic, but we talked him out of it. We apologize...
Week 026 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Because ‘Horse-People’ is Boring
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for some Old English as we take a look at the Éothéod and one of their lords, Eorl the Young in the first Word-nerd Wednesday of 2024. Lea...
Week 026 - Tolkien Tuesday: All That Over a Comma
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for The Man of the West to open the new Revised and Expanded Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien as we begin a new series of Tolkien Tuesday episode...
Week 026 - Mailbag Monday: Something About Rope
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he rings in 2024 with a new series of Today’s Tolkien Times! We start with a mailbag question about Sam’s mysteriously...
Week 025 - Fancy a Game of Snapdragons?
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tolkien brings in more real-world events — a really cold winter, and a bright comet — into his Letters From Father Christmas, while NPB is busy ge...
Week 025 - Rory Bory Aylis
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West introduces a new term for the Aurora Borealis, as he looks at Tolkien’s 1926 Letter From Father Christmas. North Polar Bear is u...
Week 025 - Dreadfully Busy
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
No, really, he means it. Father Christmas is busy, and so is Professor Tolkien, as Christmas of 1925 approaches. Holding down two jobs, writing the be...
Week 025 - A Letter for the LEGO Fans
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We move to 1923 and a letter to a new address in Leeds, before looking at just how old Father Christmas really is. Also, when is a brick not a brick? ...
Week 025 - Dramatis Personae
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s start at the very beginning: it’s a very good place to start, after all. It’s time to open up the Introduction to the Letters and learn ab...
Week 025 - Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West for a very special holiday week of Today’s Tolkien Times as he dives into Letters From Father Christmas, beginning with wor...
Week 024 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Elves Know Not
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Men are mortal, and so is Series 3 of Today’s Tolkien Times! Join The Man of the West as he wraps things up (mostly) for 2023 with a look at the dif...
Week 024 - Fandom Friday: Time Flies When Your Book is Awesome — John Garth
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve enjoyed eight weeks of excerpts from his book, Tolkien and the Great War, so please welcome John Garth to Today’s Tolkien Times, as we cele...
Week 024 - Third Age Thursday: Look After Your Darling
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To those celebrating, the TTT wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving! Join The Man of the West as he finishes up The Quest of Erebor and discovers the softer...
Week 024 - Word-nerd Wednesday: What Do Fëanor and Dol Guldur Have in Common?
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ll let Gandalf explore the dungeons of Dol Guldur; The Man of the West will explore its etymology. Observe his shocked face as he learns the conn...
Week 024 - Tolkien Tuesday: Pipe-smoking and Chin-wagging
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like so many other students before him, Tolkien wasn’t always entirely dedicated to his academic pursuits. Join The Man of the West as he revisits J...
Week 024 - Mailbag Monday: Linked In, Middle-earth
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he begins the last week of Series 3 of the TTT with an update for the holidays before he answers an interesting question a...
Week 023 - Silmarillion Saturday: Where Every Leaf is Green
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’m sure it won’t stay that way, though. Join The Man of the West as he concludes this week of the TTT by reading the first half of the chapter Of...
Week 023 - Fandom Friday: The Tolkien Professor
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, the big voices in the fandom have things to say too — Alan welcomes the OG Tolkien podcaster, Dr. Corey Olsen to the show to talk about a...
Week 023 - Third Age Thursday: He Was Getting Greedy and Fat
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
No, not The Man of the West — well at least not both of them — Bilbo! Gandalf recalls just how disappointing Bilbo was in the second part of The Q...
Week 023 - Word-nerd Wednesday: (The Rest of) The Many Names of Gandalf
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West returns to his wizardy wording ways this week as he brings you more of the names of Gandalf — and fills in a few unintended blan...
Week 023 - Tolkien Tuesday: Time For You To Go, George
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We join Tolkien on his winter break as he writes and stars in his own play that just might bear some similarities to real-life. He is finally allowed ...
Week 023 - Mailbag Monday: Not a David Letterman Top 10
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Man of the West as he begins week 23 with a list of the top 10 scariest or creepiest creatures in Middle-earth, just in time for… two weeks...
Week 022 - Silmarillion Saturday: I Think You Know What That Word Means
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Melkor hides, fakes friendship, almost persuades Fëanor, goes too far, but manages to understand thralldom better than Fëanor. Also, Tulkas is think...
Week 022 - Fandom Friday: A Love of Letters — Phil Walch from Tolkien Collector’s Guide
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West talks about the new Letters volume — and a massive Guide to even more Letters — with Phil Walch from Tolkien Collector’s Gui...
Week 022 - Third Age Thursday: Brooding On His Wrongs
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Gandalf — and the Man of the West — as he relates his own take on “the incident with the dragon” in The Quest of Erebor. From Gandalf’s...
Week 022 - Word-nerd Wednesday: (Some of) The Many Names of Gandalf
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a wizardy Wednesday as The Man of the West begins his exploration of several — but not all — of the names of everyone’s favorite Middle-e...
Week 022 - Tolkien Tuesday: An Assault on Finnish
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West combines the best of Carpenter and Garth to talk about Tolkien in 1912: from his wet and windy cavalry camp, to his discovery of a...
Week 022 - Mailbag Monday: No, YOU Be the Mortal One
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West opens up the mailbag this week with a speculative question: what happens to the kingship of Gondor if Aragorn dies at the Black Ga...
Week 021 - Silmarillion Saturday: Master of Thralls
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Okay, so it’s a great name for a metal album, but it’s also a theme in today’s Silmarillion Saturday, as Fëanor threatens his younger brother, ...
Week 021 - Fandom Friday: Silmaremily: At the Crossroads of Faramir and… Taylor Swift?
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In what is likely to be the only mention of Taylor Swift on Today’s Tolkien Times, The Man of the West welcomes Silmaremily to Fandom Friday for a w...
Week 021 - Third Age Thursday: No Queen in Gondor
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gandalf explains just how important those “off screen” battles were at the end of the Third Age, as The Man of the West finally concludes his read...
Week 021 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Surprise - the Hobbits Named Something After a Drink
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Word-nerd Wednesday takes a look at the name of the river separating the Shire from those weird folk in Buckland: the Brandywine. Is it a pu...
Week 021 - Tolkien Tuesday: Certain Among the Gods
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Halloween to all the TTT followers — but there’s nothing spooky about today’s Tolkien Tuesday, unless Tolkien “revisiting old haunts” ...
Week 021 - Mailbag Monday: Past Their Expiration Date
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West starts off week 21 of Today’s Tolkien Times with a question about everyone’s favorite equestrian group: the Black Riders. Spec...
Week 020 - Silmarillion Saturday: A Greedy Love
28 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our adventures in “Fëanor, No!” continue as Melkor continues to sow Discord in Valinor. Also, secret weapon stashes and awkward family dinners. L...
Week 020 - Fandom Friday: Real Elvish - a Chat with Fiona Jallings
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West welcomes your friendly neighborhood linguist, the creator of RealElvish.net and the author of books to help you learn Neo-Sindarin...
Week 020 - Third Age Thursday: A Chance Meeting
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West’s readings through the Appendix on Durin’s Folk continues as Thorin ascends the throne and just happens to run into Gandalf wh...
Week 020 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Orcs, Uruks, and Balrogs - Oh My!
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Man of the West dives deep into the Etymologies to explain how the words for just about every nasty creature in Middle-earth are actually connecte...