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Join The Man of the West as fourteen weeks of Beren and Lúthien begin without a Lúthien in sight, but with a light in a window and a bad deal with Sauron. (Is there any other kind?) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as two brothers hitch a ride with the eagles to a city no Man has seen before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A kingdom splits three ways, a tower burns, and the Witch-king sees an opening as The Man of the West begins Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for what a life cost in Anglo-Saxon England, a man with no law on his side, and a Greek turtle with an extra F. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for a sea monster that’s really an island, and a word that looks like a cat walked across Tolkien’s keyboard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as Elrond decides to go on the Quest himself, and someone may be sent home in a sack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as twelve weeks in Valinor come to an end and Fëanor proves he’s exactly who I’ve said he was all along. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as we look at the friendship of Gimli and Éomer: from the opening threat to the playful parting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ar-Pharazôn wins a war without a battle and foolishly carries the prize home — join The Man of the West for the Downfall of Númenor and the end of the Second Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for the last words of series 17, including dead man walking, and what a four-year-old in Númenor might call her father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as we read a letter Tolkien began in 1964, finished in 1968, and still never sent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West to find out what happens to Númenor — and Middle-earth — if Aldarion just did what he said he’d do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mandos passes sentence on the Noldor, and Fëanor doubles down as The Man of the West nears the end of The Flight of the Noldor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as a promise made at Dunharrow is kept on the Pelennor, and Aragorn hands Éomer back his sister. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Númenor gets a mountain, a Ban, and a slowly-growing shadow as The Man of the West continues a look at Appendix A from The Lord of the Rings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as we look at a courtroom in the Ring of Doom, a royal walking stick, a haven, and yet another fence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West as he looks at a tree Tolkien can’t stop drawing, a car, the strangeness of punting, and a very boring textbook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join The Man of the West for a what-if that Merry & Pippin genuinely don’t want to think about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Olwë tells Fëanor that the swan-ships are his people’s Silmarils, and Fëanor takes them anyway — join The Man of the West for the Kinslaying at Alqualondë. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two swords finally drawn together (pencils down!) at the Hornburg: join The Man of the West for part two of Aragorn and Éomer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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