You underestimate Lúthien at your own peril. Join The Man of the West for more from the Lay of Leithian as Huan once again proves to be the bestest boy ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Company finally leave Rivendell and so do we, as we join Gimli for a rich history lesson in this week’s Third Age Thursday poetry reading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West for this deep dive into the names of four Faithful men in the darkest time of Númenor in this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No, this is not a claim of knowledge on behalf of The Man of the West; in fact, it’s a quote from one of Tolkien’s letters that we’ll look at today, as he acknowledges he doesn’t have them all either. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man of the West’s advice to Celebrimbor: never meet your heroes. Today’s Middle-earth Map Monday follows up on last week as we continue our time in the land of Eregion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he notes the company that Ar-Pharazôn keeps in brooding darkly, while the mightiest King of Númenor decides it’s time to bring home a Dark Lord for safe-keeping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The folk of Nargothrond finally come to their senses about the Sons of Fëanor, while Beren decides it’s time to part ways with Lúthien, in this week’s reading from The Lay of Leithian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have time for one more poem in Rivendell before leaving with the Company, this time a nostalgic and sorrowful set of verses from Bilbo as he sits beside the fire and thinks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West for some word-nerdery on several of the names of Númenóreans from last week’s reading in the Akallabêth for Silmarillion Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once again, a title that could be speaking about The Man of the West but, thankfully, is instead referring to ‘silly alterations’ made for an adaptation as we continue our time in Tolkien’s Letter #210. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as we venture south of Rivendell for this week’s Middle-earth Map Monday, with the Company arriving at “the country that Men call Hollin”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as a series of Númenórean kings play a game of “who can be worse than their fathers?”. Except for Tar-Palantír, of course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time for yet more beautiful poetry on First Age Friday as we continue our read through the Lay of Leithian: this time, Draugluin dies, Sauron shapeshifts, and Lúthien looks for her love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That’s it, no more alliteration today. The Man of the West reads a bit more poetry in The Lord of the Rings, starting with a verse that stymied Men of Gondor, followed by a brief warning from Bilbo about the weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he looks at far more names for Rivendell than you might have expected, and reads a bit about Tolkien’s adventures in the Swiss valley that inspired it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now I’m just feeling called out; fortunately, those words of Tolkien’s were reserved for the storyline of Zimmerman in Letter #210 as we continue our walk through this collection of unmitigated frustration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West as he extends his Middle-earth Map Monday visit to Rivendell by an extra week, to look at the role it played in the history of the Third Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They just don’t know how good they have it, do they? Join The Man of the West as he watches the diminishing of the bliss of Westernesse in the next installment of the Akallabêth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s all discord and rhyme as Sauron sends a mighty wolf to slay Beren, but Finrod does his thing instead and we all mourn the death of the First Age’s best Elf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West, who’s extending his visit in Rivendell awhile, as he looks at a song that Bilbo describes only as “a song to Elbereth”. That’s like saying the Silmarils are these shiny jewels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do Dana Carvey and the Flammifer of Westernesse have in common? Well, you’ll have to check out this week’s Word-nerd Wednesday to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While that could easily have been the Professor’s response to The Man of the West’s occasional irreverent jokes, it was just one of a dozen slams in this week’s continuing look at the infamous Letter #210 about an adaptation that was, thankfully, never made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Man of the West for another Middle-earth Map Monday as we arrive at The Last Homely House, just in time for lunch — and a long talk about the Second Age history of Rivendell! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yearning becomes doubt, doubt becomes secret griping, and secret griping becomes open rebellion as the Men of Númenor begin the long walk to their Downfall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices