The Prancing Pony Podcast
The Prancing Pony Podcast is a weekly show about the Middle-earth legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien, hosted - for six seasons - by Alan Sisto and Shawn E. Marchese. Now in its ninth season, Alan is joined by an all-star cast of co-hosts as he explores more of Middle-earth! Alan and all his co-hosts are passionate Tolkien enthusiasts, inviting listeners to enjoy their detailed exploration of Tolkien’s work, with smart but straightforward discussion and a healthy dose of self-effacing humor, pop-culture references, and bad puns. These are the folks you'd want to hang out with at a pub and talk Tolkien with!
An Unexpected Episode – The War of the Rohirrim Review
352 – White Horse
351 – Questions After Nightfall 29
350 – Wanted Dead Or Alive
349 – I’ll Be There For You
348 – You Give Love a Bad Name
347 – Livin’ On a Prayer
346 – Already Gone
345 – Take It Easy
344 – Life in the Fast Lane
343 – Questions After Nightfall 28
342 – Paperback Writer
341 – Everyday I Write the Book
340 – Since You’re Gone
339 – You’re the Girl
338 – Good Times Roll
337 – Magic
336 – Let’s Go
335 – Just What I Needed
334 – Shake It Up
333 – Triple Nelson: The PPP Turns 333
332 – Hello Again
331 – Questions After Nightfall 27
330 – And Here’s To You, Master Barliman
329 – Hello Pony, My Old Friend
328 – Alive and Kicking
327 – Promised You a Miracle
326 – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
325 – When Love Comes to Town
324 – A Sort of Homecoming
323 – Tolkien Reading Day 2024
322 – Questions After Nightfall 26
321 – Something to Talk About
320 – Love Sneakin’ Up On You
319 – Big Damn Heroes, Sir
318 – Burn the Land and Boil the Sea
317 – Curse Your Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal
316 – I Swear By My Pretty Wheel of Fire, I Will End You
315 – Sometimes A Thing Gets Broke, Can’t Be Fixed
314 – Everybody Dies Alone
313 – Breakfast in Mordor
312 – Take the Long Way ‘Round
311 – When All the World’s Asleep
310 – Give a Little Bit (of Your Cloak to Me)
309 – Questions After Nightfall 25
308 – Boy, You’re Gonna Carry That Weight
307 – I Want to Hold Your Hand
306 – We Can’t Work it Out
305 – All You Need is Love
304 – Not Your Father's Hobbit
303 – Questions After Nightfall 24
302 – Live at Oxonmoot 50!
301 – A Little Bit Me, A Little… Nah, it’s All You
300 – Another Unpleasant Valley Sunday
299 – Not a Trace of Hope in My Mind
298 – Take the Last Train to Harlond
297 – Questions After Nightfall 23
296 – A Farewell to Kings (For Now)
295 – It’s Good to Be King
294 – King of Pain (Relief)
293 – We’ve Got to Have Some Bears In Here: An Interview with Brian Sibley
292 – (Goodness, Gracious) Great Ball of Fire
291 – Whole Lotta Heathen Goin’ On
290 – Beautiful Day
289 – Stuck In a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
288 – Pride (In the Name of Hindering)
287 – Questions After Nightfall 22
286 – Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
285 – In Ghân’s Country
284 – Tolkien Reading Day 2023
283 – He Won’t Back Down
282 – Runnin’ Down a Rout
281 – Don’t Come Around Here No More
280 – Don’t Do Him Like That
279 – You Got Lucky
278 – The Lion & Unicorn: Another Visit with John Garth
277 – I Will Follow
276 – With or Without You, Rohan
275 – Who’s Gonna Ride Your War Horses?
274 – Live from PPP Moot!
273 – Questions After Nightfall 21
272 – Bad Company
271 – Feel like Breakin’ Love
270 – Run With the Pack
269 – It’s All Part of My Gondorian Fantasy
268 – Waiting for the Son
267 – This is the End, My Hobbit Friend
266 – People Are Strange When You’re a Halfling
265 – Hello, I Loathe You
264 – Riders on the Storm
263 – Come on Gondor, Light That Fire
262 – Questions After Nightfall 20
261 – Drinking the Cup of Farewell
260 – Hanging Out with Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan
259 – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
258 – We Can Be Heroes, Just for One Day
257 – There’s a Star, Man
256 – Questions After Nightfall 19
255 – She Never Begs, She Knows How to Choose Them
254 – She’s Got (Eight) Legs, She Knows How to Use Them
253 – …That Leads to Mordor
252 – The Long and Winding Stair…
251 – Don’t Stop and Don’t Smell the Flowers
250 – In the Sunshine of Your Love
249 – Down to the Crossroads
248 – Much More Than Skin Deep: An Interview with Clifford Broadway
247 – Everybody Out of the Pool
246 – Return of the Giant Squirrel
245 – Questions After Nightfall 18
244 – Tolkien Reading Day 2022
243 – Just a Little Bit of Peril
242 – And the People Did Feast
241 – There Are Some Who Call Me… Tharkûn
240 – Bereft of Life, He Rests in Peace
239 – Nobody Expects the Mannish Inquisition
238 – Gondor Calling
237 – Should I Stew or Should I Go Now
236 – Go Straight to Smells, Boys
235 – All Along the Watchtower
234 – Knockin’ on Sauron’s Door
233 – Questions After Nightfall 17
232 – Don't Stand So Close to Me
231 – Spirits in the Material World
230 – Choking on a Crust of Bread
229 – Always Reaching: An Interview with John Howe
228 – Where Sméagols Swear
227 – Where Sméagols Dare
226 – Places High
225 – Strangers in a Strange Land
224 – Whose Story Line Is It Anyway?
223 – Questions After Nightfall 16
222 – Double Nelson: The 222nd Episode Extravaganza
221 – Dancing Bears: An Interview with Carl F. Hostetter
220 – The Worst of Times
219 – Crystal Ball
218 – Renegade
217 – Fooling Yourself (The Angry Old Man)
216 – Questions After Nightfall 15
215 – (Flash)Back in Black
214 – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
213 – Let There Be (Lots of Broken) Rock
212 – Highway to Dell
211 – For Those About to (Rave About a) Rock, We Salute You
210 – Live from PPP Moot 2021
209 – Pyromania
208 – White Lightning
207 – Rock of Ages
206 – I Saw Her Standing There
205 – Here Comes the Sun
204 – The Long and Winding Road
203 – Questions After Nightfall 14
202 – Tolkien Reading Day 2021
201 – A Nice Day for a White Wizard
200 – A Whiter Shade of Grey
199 – Pretty Spry (For a Grey Guy)
198 – Never Enough Tolkien: An Interview with Ted Nasmith
197 – Birnam Wood as It Should Have Been
196 – Branch Managers' Meeting
195 – The Birches and the Beeches
194 – Tree’s Company
193 – Out on a Limb
192 - Race, Tolkien, and Middle-earth, Revisited
191 - A Trick of the Took
190 - Follow Uruks, Follow Me
189 - Supper’s Ready
188 - Questions After Nightfall 13
187 - The Old Man and the Coconuts
186 - A Man That Has No Coconut
185 - Proud Riders on Proud Coconuts
184 - The Land of the Coconut-Lords
183 - Wind and Brothering
182 - And Then There Were Three
181 - Two Shall Be the Number of the Towers
180 - Questions After Nightfall 12
179 - A Pandemic of Moots
178 - Hard Choices and Strange Voices: An Interview with Verlyn Flieger
177 - Exit... Stage Left
176 - Grace Under Pressure
175 - Time Stand Still
174 - Drifting by the Limlight (The Universally Creepy Dream)
173 - Questions After Nightfall 11
172 - Bye, Company (Till the Day You Die)
171 - Can't Get Enough of Your Leaves
170 - Feel Like Bakin' Loaves
169 – The Grand Illusion
168 - Too Much Time on Their Hands
167 - You're My Lady
166 – Inspiration in Unlikely (and Likely) Places: An Interview with John Garth
165 - Just a Little Bit of Peril
164 - Nobody Expected the Elvish Insinuation
163 - Strange Women Singing in Streams
162 - 'Tis but a Scratch
161 - Questions After Nightfall 10
160 - Tolkien Reading Day Special 2020
159 - A Farewell to Wings
158 - Troll the Bones
157 - Don't Stop Believin'
156 - Any Way You Want It (Just Not the Middle Way)
155 - Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
154 - Separate Ways
153 - When the Lights Go Down
152 - Trampled Under Snow
151 - Misty Mountain Hop
150 - Time to Ramble On
149 - Good Times Bad Times
148 - Questions After Nightfall 9
147 - Tales from the Perilous Green Room: An Interview with Brian Sibley
146 - Bring It on Home
145 - What Is and What Should Never Be
144 - Nobody's Fault but Mine (and Yours, and Isildur's)
143 - Whole Lotta Lore
142 - Confustication Breakdown (with special guest Corey Olsen)
141 - Starship Trooper
140 - I've Seen All Good People
139 - Close to the Edge
138 - Questions After Nightfall 8
137 - Go Back to the Beginning
136 - Live from Tolkien 2019
135 – Things You Don’t Want to Say No To: An Interview with Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull
134 – White Horses Could Drag Me Away
133 - It's Only Rock (Not Trolls) But I Like It
132 - Ranger's Little Helper
131 - Visualizing Middle-earth: An Interview with Greg Hildebrandt
130 - Questions After Nightfall 7
129 - Fooled on the Hill
128 - Magical Mystery Tour
127 - Twelve-Penny Lane
126 - Noble Enough to Know What's Right
125 - A Writer and a Ranger
124 - Living in the Limelight
123 - Be Cool or Be Cast Out
122 - The Digital Mead-Hall: TexMoot 2019 Keynote Presentation
121 - Comfortably Tom
120 - Wish You Weren't Here
119 - The Dark Side of the Tomb
118 - Tolkien Reading Day Special 2019
117 - Questions After Nightfall 6
116 - Does Goldberry Float in Water?
115 - Fetch the Comfy Chairs
114 - Race, Tolkien, and Middle-earth
113 - Trouble with the Trees
112 - Unrest in the Forest
111 - Eleventy-first Episode Extravaganza
110 - With a Little Help from My Friends
109 - Hello, Goodbye
108 - Ain't Gonna Walk on Maggot's Farm No More
107 - The Nazgûl is Wailin' in the Wind
An Evergreen PPP Holiday Event - The Father Christmas Letters
106 - Questions After Nightfall 5
105 - Who Wants to Leave Forever?
104 - I See a Little Silhouetto of a Man
103 - Goodbye Everybody, I've Got to Go
102 - Arthur of the Century: An Interview with Sørina Higgins
101 - Now I Need a Place to Hide Away
100 - There's a Shadow Hanging Over Me
099 - Yesterday, All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away
098 - Questions After Nightfall 4
097 - A Hard Day's Night
096 - I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, So I'll Go
095 - They Say It's Your Birthday
094 - This Shire is Your Shire
093 - We're In the Same Tale Still!
092 - We're Not Saying It's Monsters, But It's Monsters
091 - Laughing Shall We Die: An Interview with Tom Shippey
090 - Between Light and Dark: An Interview with Verlyn Flieger
089 - Questions After Nightfall 3
088 - Live From Mythmoot Five
087 - No Shrubberies: The Hobbit Retrospective
086 - Not Quite Dead
085 - Bilbo "Two Chests" Baggins
084 - The Violence Inherent in the System
083 - Oh Yes, Ees Very Nice-uh
082 - What is the Airspeed Velocity of a Decrepit Old Raven?
081 - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
080 - And There Was Much Rejoicing
079 - Smaug Gets Quite Irate
078 - Every Worm is Sacred
077 - Questions After Nightfall 2
076 - The Ministry of Silly Locks
075 - Tolkien Reading Day Special 2018
074 - A Mandate From the Masses
073 - Some Farcical Aquatic Ceremony
072 - King Name-Not-Appearing-In-This-Book
071 - Fortress Around Your Hoard
070 - If You Love Somebody, Cut Them Free
069 - Be Still My Fleeting Hart
068 - Exit, Pursued by a Bear
067 - Forget About Your Worries and Your Strife
066 - A Slaying Song Tonight: An Interview with Michael Drout
065 - Lobbest Thou Thy Holy Pine Grenade
064 - And Now, the Larch
063 - How Not to Be Seen
062 - Ere the Other Side He See
061 - Answer Me These Questions Five...
060 - Questions After Nightfall 1
059 - Run Away!
058 - There Lies a Cave
057 - 'Tis a Silly Place
056 - He’s a Burglar and He’s OK
055 - Pining for the Hoards
054 - Nobody Expects the Dwarvish Inquisition
053 - A Hole New World
052 - Exploring The Hobbit and More: An Interview with Corey Olsen
051 - Why Does It Hurt So Much?: The Hobbit Film Trilogy
050 - You Have Kept Your Honor: The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
049 - The First Age Strikes Back: The Silmarillion Retrospective
048 - People Are People
047 - Never Let Me Down Again
046 - Master and Servant
045 - Just Can’t Get Enough
044 - The Threshold of Middle-earth: An Interview with John Garth
043 - The Final Frontier
042 - Resistance is Futile
041 - Make It So
040 - He's Dead, Gem
039 - Exit the Warrior
038 - I Will Choose Free Will
037 - No Man's Land: An Interview with Simon Tolkien
036 - Fly By Night, Away From Here
035 - Tolkien Reading Day Special 2017
034 - Let It All Out
033 - The Princess Bride
032 - Lady and the Tramp
031 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
030 - Another One Bites the Dust
029 - Tolkien's 125th Birthday Special
028 - Father of the Century: a PPP Christmas Special
027 - Go West, Young Edain
026 - You're The One That I Want
025 - Watch Your Language
024 - Territories
023 - Distant Early Warning
022 - Subdivisions
021 - New World, Man
020 - Tolkien's Secret Vice: An Interview with Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins
019 - How to Get the Celestial Body You Want
018 - Menegroth: Love It or List It
017 - ...Don't You Come Back
016 - Hit the Road, Jack...
015 - Along Came a Spider
014 - Trouble in Paradise
013 - The Blame Game
012 - All in the Family
011 - Elves and All! Hooray!
010 - It Is A Gift
009 - The Odd Couple
008 - And So It Begins
007 - The Powers of Arda
006 - Tolkien Reading Day Special 2016
005 - The Music of the Ainur
004 - The Great War
003 - The Origins of Quenya and Sindarin
002 - The Myth-lover
