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Week 124 — Word-nerd Wednesday: Old as Mountains
Jul 8, 2026
9m 21s
Week 124 — Tolkien Tuesday: The Shepherds of the Trees
Jul 7, 2026
11m 45s
Week 124 — Middle-earth Map Monday: Is There a Carpool Lane?
Jul 6, 2026
12m 59s
Week 123 - Silmarillion Saturday: Not the First
Jul 4, 2026
11m 22s
Week 123 - Friendship Friday: An Elf Will Go Underground
Jul 3, 2026
9m 13s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/8/26 | Week 124 — Word-nerd Wednesday: Old as Mountains | It only took seven hundred episodes to circle back to the Ents. Join The Man of the West for the Elvish side of their names that we never did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 9m 21s | ||||||
| 7/7/26 | Week 124 — Tolkien Tuesday: The Shepherds of the Trees | Join The Man of the West for the back half of Letter 247, as we learn where the Ents came from: both on the page and from Tolkien’s own pen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 45s | ||||||
| 7/6/26 | Week 124 — Middle-earth Map Monday: Is There a Carpool Lane? | Turns out the express lane to Mount Doom was paved by the Enemy himself. Join The Man of the West for our last Map Monday in Mordor, as the road ends at the Sammath Naur — and the Dark Tower comes crashing down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 12m 59s | ||||||
| 7/4/26 | Week 123 - Silmarillion Saturday: Not the First | Join The Man of the West as the Valar ask Fëanor to break the Silmarils and heal the Trees — and Fëanor does precisely what you’d imagine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 22s | ||||||
| 7/3/26 | Week 123 - Friendship Friday: An Elf Will Go Underground | …and a Dwarf dare not! Join The Man of the West on the Paths of the Dead, and Legolas has to tell Gimli’s story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 9m 13s | ||||||
| 7/2/26 | Week 123 - Third Age Thursday: An Ambush, Not an Absence | Join The Man of the West as Grimbold breaks out of the trap at the Fords, and we finally learn what really kept his friend away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 42s | ||||||
| 7/1/26 | Week 123 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Mushy Language | What do moose have in common with the Nazgûl? Join The Man of the West for six of Mordor’s darkest names — and the Gaelic word for ‘ring’ that Tolkien swore he never borrowed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 10m 23s | ||||||
| 6/30/26 | Week 123 - Tolkien Tuesday: An Unvisited Island | Join The Man of the West for the first half of Letter 247, where Tolkien frets that some magic dies the moment you visit it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 48s | ||||||
| 6/29/26 | Week 123 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Chance Our Luck | Not a lottery ticket The Man of the West would buy. Join him as Frodo and Sam take the one road left to them, and end up conscripted into Sauron’s army. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 34s | ||||||
| 6/27/26 | Week 122 - Silmarillion Saturday: All Song Ceased | Join The Man of the West as Melkor and Ungoliant reach the Trees — and Valinor, which was sung into being, discovers silence alongside darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 10m 10s | ||||||
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| 6/26/26 | Week 122 - Friendship Friday: You Move Me, Gimli | Join The Man of the West as Gimli describes the caverns of Helm’s Deep with great detail and glorious prose, like… well, like Tolkien. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 19s | ||||||
| 6/25/26 | Week 122 - Third Age Thursday: The Shieldwall Held | Midnight, a river of fire, and no sign of Elfhelm. Join The Man of the West as Grimbold makes his stand at the Fords of Isen — and faces a choice between glory and purpose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 9m 26s | ||||||
| 6/24/26 | Week 122 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Horse-Joy | Join The Man of the West for one Old English root, four Rohirric names, and a word that has been galloping through the language since the Eurasian steppe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 10m 00s | ||||||
| 6/23/26 | Week 122 - Tolkien Tuesday: And Good Detestable | The Ringwraiths would have said “my lord”, but not to The Man of the West. We close out letter 246 today — including some hard truths about Gandalf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 12m 10s | ||||||
| 6/22/26 | Week 122 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Pieces on a Board | Join The Man of the West as Frodo and Sam crest the Morgai — and discover the plain of Gorgoroth is crawling with orcs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 12s | ||||||
| 6/20/26 | Week 121 - Silmarillion Saturday: Reconciled, In Word | Join The Man of the West as Melkor and Ungoliant come down from Hyarmentir, and Valinor holds a party. Moral of the story: hire private security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 10m 12s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | Week 121 - Friendship Friday: You Comfort Me | Join The Man of the West as Legolas and Gimli become two-thirds of the Three Hunters — from the breaking of the Fellowship, across Rohan, and into Helm's Deep, where two friends find the same word for what the other gives them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 24s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | Week 121 - Third Age Thursday: Let Isen Be Their Snare | Join The Man of the West as two loyal commanders disagree about how to fight a battle Tolkien has already told us was lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 18s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | Week 121 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Brightest of Stars | Join The Man of the West for six words drawn from the cry that broke the Watchers — and from an older cry, in the dark of Shelob's lair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 10m 45s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | Week 121 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nice Master | It’s certainly not what Alan’s team members call him. Join The Man of the West as we continue letter 246 and visit the moment that Tolkien calls perhaps the most tragic in the entire Tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 13m 02s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | Week 121 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Down and Down | But not to goblin-town; not yet. Join The Man of the West as Sam finds the way up to Frodo, and the two escape the Tower of Cirith Ungol — into The Land of Shadow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 10m 26s | ||||||
| 6/13/26 | Week 120 - Silmarillion Saturday: With Both Hands | Join The Man of the West as we go back to where the whole tragedy begins — Melkor slips south to the lightless land of Avathar, and strikes a bargain with a dark hunger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 12m 25s | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | Week 120 - Friendship Friday: Above All the Jewels✨ | FriendshipJewels+3 | — | The Man of the West | Lothlórien | FëanorGimli+5 | — | 11m 41s | |
| 6/11/26 | Week 120 - Third Age Thursday: Till Éomer Comes✨ | TolkienMiddle-earth+5 | — | — | Fords of Isen | TolkienÉomer+5 | — | 11m 18s | |
| 6/10/26 | Week 120 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Full Power✨ | Tolkienlanguage+3 | — | Gandalf | mountainblack fence+1 | TolkienGandalf+5 | — | 11m 06s | |
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Chart Positions
5 placements across 5 markets.
Chart Positions
5 placements across 5 markets.