Hot on the heels of the Season 5 outtakes come the Season 6 outtakes. Meet Fastito Colón the giant sea turtle, and enjoy more fun with Anborn!
Season outtakes are never late, they arrive precisely when they mean to – which in this case is a mere fourteen months after the end of Season 5. Enjoy!
Alan and Corey introduce Book Five, and with no time to wallow in the mire, journey with Gandalf and Pippin towards Minas Tirith, as the beacons try to set the night on fire. Pippin is scared of the moon, the beacon fires, and the dragons –...
Alan welcomes The Tolkien Professor himself, Corey Olsen, to the Prancing Pony – just in time for us both to join our listeners in the common-room for our latest Q&A episode! We discuss the choices made by Elrond and Elros, whether the...
The time has come for Shawn to drink the cup of parting, but not before we take a moment to celebrate his time in the Common Room! We look back on how this thing got started in the first place, talk about some of the amazing guests that have joined...
For over six years now, Alan and I have created The Prancing Pony Podcast together. It has been a source of joy, a creative outlet, and a wellspring of recovery, escape, and consolation for me for all that time. I’m proud of everything Alan and I...
Real hobbits arrive at the Prancing Pony, as Alan and Shawn welcome Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan (better known as Pippin and Merry) for our season finale! We talk about their time working on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movies, their new...
Sam desperately tries to get through the blocked passage while the Orc captains — oblivious that their eaves are being dropped — continue complaining about their bosses. But when one of the captains reveals some new information, Sam suddenly...
Letting logic guide him rather than emotion, Sam has made up his mind to leave Frodo’s body where it is and take the Ring to Mount Doom all by himself… except that he hasn’t. We see the Ring find a new bearer, offer word-nerdery on a slightly less...
Samwise returns to where he left Frodo in the pass of Cirith Ungol, only to discover his master already defeated and being dragged away by Shelob. Acting on instinct, Sam leaps into action, armed with his guts, the elven-blade, and the Phial of...