359 – Play the Tradition Tonight

The Prancing Pony Podcast

Alan Sisto

Film Reviews, Books, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Isildur counsels his successors to bring their heirs to the Hill of Awe to reveal the secrets of the realm; Alan and Matt wonder if there’s a Gondorian equivalent to Area 51. Join us as we step back in time to the establishment of the Tradition of Isildur in our final episode on Cirion & Eorl. Isildur gets out a map and points to the middle (like putting a memorial to George Washington in the middle of Kansas), the Stewards play rules-lawyer to justify their going to the hallow and then hardly ever go, and Cirion makes a tough decision about exhumation. We discover that Tolkien thinks he’d squandered his best “motifs and characters” in The Hobbit, discover that an absence of dead people means an absence of alfirin, and suggest that you talk to your doctor to see if Meneldil is right for you. Also, a Barrow-wight that sounds a little like Tom Bombadil. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/pony. This episode of the PPP is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/PONY and get 10% off your first month. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code PONY at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.9	where I would bring Matt to the tomb of Alendell, if only he was full grown to manhood.
1:22.1	I already know all the secrets of the realm, Alan.
1:25.3	Yeah, uh-huh.
1:26.6	Sure.
1:27.1	Sure, yeah. Well, folks, pull up a bench in the common room and join us. I'm Matt,
1:31.8	the nerd of the rings. And I'm here with the man of the West, who should probably cause the
1:36.5	tradition of the PPP to be set down in a sealed scroll, Alan Sisto. Are you implying that
1:43.5	sudden death or other misfortune might befall?
1:46.5	That sounds like a threat to me, Matt.
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