371 – When Dwarves Cry

The Prancing Pony Podcast

Alan Sisto

Film Reviews, Books, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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A deep dive into Tolkien’s oldest stories about the Dwarves uncovers all sorts of interesting details, as Alan hands the reins of the PPP to Sara for her expertise on the Dwarves. Join The Man of the West and The Shieldmaiden of Rohan as we explore the origin, awakening, culture, and language of Tolkien’s Dwarves as we take a sidebar into several volumes of The History of Middle-earth. From their early nature as evil creatures, to the fact that they all — women and babies, too — have beards, learn more about the Dwarves than you ever thought you could. Alan and Sara discuss recession-proof industries, dutifully avoid Disney jokes and figure Durin must have asked Aulë: “How could you just leave me standing alone in a world so cold?” Also, Sneezy and Bashful were the hardest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.6	podcast. For the past 10 years, I've been talking to novelists,
1:12.4	biographers, and scholars about the greatest books in the history of the world and the men and
1:17.2	women who wrote them, like our recent episodes on Dante in Love, a starter pack of 10 Indian
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1:36.3	podcasts. Good evening, Little Masters, and welcome to episode 371 of the Prancing Pony podcast, where, well, we try our best to count how many wives the fathers of the dwarves actually had.
2:00.0	And it turns out it was one lesson they actually needed, apparently.
2:03.3	That's odd, considering there's not like 700 of them. There's just seven of them.
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