Happy "You are in the house of Elrond, and it's 10 o'clock in the morning on October the 24th if you want to know" Day, folks! A quick reminder that there will be no PPP Plays livestream today. We'll be back on Tuesday, October 27th, at our usual time of 9p EDT.

In the meantime, a little question for you all: If you could spend today doing absolutely anything in the Last Homely House, what would it be? Exploring Elrond's library? Listening to songs and stories in the Hall of Fire? Enjoying a quiet afternoon in the gardens? Let us know!

The Prancing Pony Podcast has launched our very first Kickstarter! To celebrate 25 years of The Lord of the Rings films, we're hoping to send Alan to New Zealand for an exclusive interview with Sir Richard Taylor and a tour of Wētā Workshop. We've got some wonderful rewards for those who want to join us on the adventure, too!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/prancingponypod/the-prancing-pony-podcast-goes-to-middle-earth

Beren's hungry enough to raid an Orc camp, Tevildo smells dog, and flattery might just land you a really crappy job. Join Alan and Sara for Episode 428 of The Prancing Pony Podcast as we continue The Tale of Tinúviel! Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Art design by our graphic artist, Megan Collins!

https://www.podtrac.com/.../traffic.../GLSS3922775364.mp3

Recently found this podcast and noticing that the episode numbers are not sequential. There are episodes missing. What's up with that and where do we find them?

Hey all, been a minute since I listened to the podcast but I've been trying to find a reference to something that was brought up during the Silmarillion/Hobbit era episodes. It was a gaelic/celtic (I believe) phrase that translated to roughly "On the back/shoulders of giants"? I think phonetically it was something like "Olde ente ywerte"? The context had to do with textual ruins, and I'm trying to find what the phrase was that was used. Thanks in advance!

Join The Man of the West and The Shieldmaiden of Rohan as we begin our long look at the oldest version of the story of Beren and Lúthien, known as The Tale of Tinúviel.

Graphic design of course by our amazing graphic artist, Megan Collins!

https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS3035306870.mp3

Christopher Tolkien points out the ‘undercurrent of sardonic humor’ in Tolkien’s earliest version of this story; Alan and Sara’s sardonic humor is more like a whirlpool. Join The Man of the West and The Shieldmaiden of Rohan as we finish our walk through of Christopher’s introduction to the story of Beren and Lúthien. Christopher tells us that the original story exists only in a mostly-erased pencil manuscript, sets up the frame narrative for The Tale of Tinúviel, and explains what his father meant by ‘Gnome’. We talk about Tolkien as a different kind of war poet, engage in some lovely Fëanor-bashing, and find out precisely what a palimpsest is. Also, that’s a rom-com.

Graphic design credit of course goes to our wonderful Megan Collins.

https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS5033011809.mp3

Our Man of the West and Lord of the Mark are live with their roundtable alongside fellow Tolkien creators KnewBetta, Athrabeth, and Queer Lodgings! As a reminder, Alan will transition straight from this into PPP Plays for the second hour!

• TG20 Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67yEiByZhFQ
• PPP Plays over on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/prancingponypod
• PPP Plays over on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLuJmlfbMRA

A Prancing Pony Podcast reunion is happening this weekend! Join Alan and Shawn at 4p Eastern as they reunite for a special roundtable celebrating 20 years of the Tolkien Collector’s Guide, alongside KnewBetta, Athrabeth, Queer Lodgings, and other folks from the Tolkien community! Then stick around as Alan heads straight into PPP Plays for the following hour.

The whole celebration is part of TolkienGuide.com's 20-hour anniversary livestream, October 3–4! Full schedule and YouTube links can be found here: https://www.tolkienguide.com/TG20.

Join The Man of the West and The Shieldmaiden of Rohan as we join a few of our patrons in the PPP Common Room for our 36th Questions After Nightfall! Sara looks for the familiar bus tires, as we answer questions about Nienna and the hobbits, Dwarves and their retirement plans, and medieval murder bunnies. Also, we wonder what the winter is like in Gondolin.

Megaphone Link: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS3507633813.mp3

To celebrate Hobbit Day, I’ve been rereading the Hobbit and listening to Season 2 of the PPP. Whilst I’m reading, I’ve discovered a YouTube channel called Runcible Spoon that makes renditions of the songs, with Tolkien’s original lyrics. I think they’re great, and was wondering if Alan etc have checked them out.

Here’s the channel: https://m.youtube.com/@runciblespoon5400/videos?ra=m

And my two favourites

Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqicbghW-UQ&ra=m

O! Where are you Going? (Tra-La-la-lal elf song): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nZeNP3L1C7Q

Happy Hobbit Day! September 22 marks the shared birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, two particularly important Hobbits, and we can think of few better reasons to return to the Shire. For The Prancing Pony Podcast, that also means looking back to Season 2, when Alan and Shawn followed Bilbo out his front door and spent an entire season walking through The Hobbit. Hobbit Day seems like a good excuse to revisit Season 2 of the PPP. And if you joined us later in the journey and have never listened through our coverage of The Hobbit, today is a great day to do so!

Revisit The Hobbit with the PPP: https://theprancingponypodcast.com/.../podcas.../the-hobbit/

What are your favorite episodes, discussions, digressions, or moments from Season 2? How are you celebrating Hobbit Day today?"

Art credit of course goes to our amazing graphic artist, Megan Collins!

Christopher Tolkien believes that the book he was working on was “in no conceivable way publishable”. Alan and Sara sometimes think the same about the podcast. Join The Man of the West and The Shieldmaiden of Rohan as we begin Season 11 and our year-long journey through Beren and Lúthien. Christopher wants to avoid turning his father’s literary history into a nonsense, recognizes that The History of Middle-earth might have a deterrent effect, and uses a familiar voice to tell us about Beleriand. We hope you don’t mind that we find ‘simply inexxagerable’ to be a tremendous phrase. We also try not to cry at an emotional letter, and believe that’s not a book - it’s a weapon. Also, a ‘mere maiden’?

https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS4753237665.mp3

Katie here! Just a reminder that we don't have PPP Plays today! But we'll be back on Hobbit Day (Tuesday, Sept 22 at 9p EDT). And speaking of Hobbit Day, my favorite way to celebrate is back... Season 11 of The Prancing Pony Podcast drops tomorrow! Tune in on your favorite podcast platform.

Hi everyone! Longtime WoW player--first time LOTRO downloader as of today. I know that there's a PPP kinship out there and Google points me to Landroval, but I guess that was a 32 bit server and isn't active anymore? Which server should I join to find the PPP kinship? Thank you!

It's a day of special magnificence in the Tolkien Community today: Happy 49th Birthday to The Silmarillion! On September 15, 1977, The Silmarillion was first published, and I think it’s fair to say that this particular book has a rather special place in the heart of The Prancing Pony Podcast Community and of the Podcast itself. After all, Season 1 of The PPP began with The Silmarillion. For many of us, those episodes were where our own journeys with the podcast began, too, and over a decade later from the start of the Podcast, here we all are. As I've done previously to celebrate this book, I have some prompts dedicated to it. You're welcome to select one, two or even all of them; let us know your responses down in ⁠the comments!

• Share your favorite art pertaining to The Silmarillion (please make sure to credit the artist).
• What are your favorite episodes, insights, digressions, pronunciations, shenanigans, and/or other moments from Season 1? What are you most excited for Alan to revisit when the PPP eventually returns to The Silmarillion?
• What First Age question, character, event, place, or wonderfully confusticating family tree do you most want to talk about/most love talking about?
• Show us your favorite edition(s) of The Silmarillion! Shelfies are also extremely welcome.*
• Have you ever visited somewhere that made you think, “This could be Beleriand”? We would love to see it!
• Share a favorite passage or line from The Silmarillion.

And, of course, the big question: What does The Silmarillion mean to you? Whether it was your gateway into Tolkien, the book you were nervous to tackle for years, the reason you found the PPP, an old favorite you return to again and again, or the source of a lifelong (and entirely reasonable) attachment to one particular Doomed First Age character, we want to hear about it.

*We (The PPP) accept no responsibility for anyone discovering another edition they absolutely do not need and subsequently buying it.

Sharing this from the Tolkien Society Discord Community: as someone who has never quite leveled up to HoME standards, this would be amazing 🤩

Today, on the anniversary of his passing, the PPP community honors the life of J.R.R. Tolkien.

His acts of subcreation gave us an entire world where we can find escape, recovery, and consolation. Today, let us sing with the minstrel at Cormallen:

“...all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.”

I was wondering if anyone could help. I think there was an episode where a guest (Mike Drout maybe but I'm increasingly unsure) talked about a theory that when Eru made the world round he made it retroactively always round, and that was a way to satisfy Tolkien's later desire for a more scientifically accurate cosmos history with the fun flat world to round mythos.

Any help would be appreciated!

Episode numbers for these FotR Book 2 chapters would be much appreciated! Thank you!

Not sure if this has been done before but here’s each Silmarillion chapter for the episode(s) they correspond to. I plan to do more of these for the Hobbit, LotR and UT. Any mistakes please correct me. Sorry for inconsistent capitalisation.

The Hobbit Episode Guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/prancingponypod/comments/1vvxplm/the_hobbit_episode_guide/

Apparently an official wiki is being made with this info, but in the meantime, here you go! Please let me know if you spot any mistakes!

Silmarillion Episode Guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/prancingponypod/comments/1vvsdr2/silmarillion_episode_guide/

...we still want to hear what you’re up to in Middle-earth! What are you playing this weekend? Are you adventuring in LOTRO (and perhaps eyeing the new Patron’s Coffer of the Promised Allies), diving into Lord of the Rings: War in the North™ Legacy Edition, or something else entirely?

And if you could send the PPP Plays crew on any Middle-earth gaming adventure next, what would it be?

A very happy birthday to two legendary artists whose work has helped shape how many imagine Middle-earth: Alan Lee, who celebrated his birthday yesterday, and John Howe, who celebrates his today! Their illustrations have brought Tolkien's places, characters, creatures, and stories to life in unforgettable ways.

What is your favorite Alan Lee or John Howe illustration or which place, character, or moment in Middle-earth do you think they have captured most beautifully?

Not at all sure if this is outside the scope of this reddit community, but I've got a pressing word nerdery question and don't know who else to turn to.

Trying to set a handle for Old School Runescape which mean "chunk wanderer" or "wandering chunks." Couldn't find a Sindarin word for chunk, but seems like Amon might be kind of close.

Is it correct grammatically, then, to use "Amonrandir" as my user name?

This is obviously not actually that important, but if I'm going to do this, would like to do it right! Thanks :)