392 – Help!

The Prancing Pony Podcast

Alan Sisto

Film Reviews, Books, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

Aldarion watches everyone celebrate and party from the sidelines; Alan painfully recalls his awkward teenage years, while Sara isn’t sure those are over. Join The Man of the West and the Shieldmaiden of Rohan as we begin the eighth of what is now eleven episodes on the story of Aldarion and Erendis in Unfinished Tales. Aldarion gives Ulbar’s wife a kingly gift meant for someone else, Gil-galad writes the best letter ever (and doesn't even use AI!), and Meneldur finds himself not so self-assured. We agree that looking for a ‘seat of power’ could be a problem, decide the question of Gil-galad’s parentage seems to vanish in the haze, and conclude that “follow your dreams and tread on anybody who gets in your way” might not be good advice. Also, Alan’s sports analogies still don’t help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipopla sauce and Ameta cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11 a.m.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:20.2	When you listen to Nobody listens to Paula Poundstone, the comedy podcast, you learn stuff.
0:25.2	I've been learning to throw a boomerang, because this is the kind of thing that really gets
0:29.3	the listeners engaged, you know.
0:31.1	Interviews with people who will make you smarter.
0:33.7	Does the amount that you learn protect you from cognitive decline?
0:38.8	Can't people just listen to the show? Can't they just enjoy a delightful treehouse full of
0:45.8	information? I think I'm bleeding. Join us and be a nobody. Good evening, Little Masters, and welcome to episode 392 of the Prancing Pony Podcast, where I always prefer to watch people dancing and partying from the sidelines with a smut. And if anyone notices you, you suddenly become wrathful and bitter, right? Yeah, sounds like a junior high dance, actually, yeah. Yeah, I can just see it from here. Folks, pull up a bench in the common room and join us. I'm Sarah Brown, the shield maiden of Rohan, and I'm here with the Man of the West, who somehow meets Aldarian's criteria to be a sailor, Alan Cisto.
1:31.9	Oh, old is the hills and with no other hope in life, right?
1:34.3	Yeah, I was thinking of that.
1:35.4	Yeah, brutal.
1:36.7	Well, folks, join us as Menelder opens the mail and changes Numenorian history
1:41.2	as we return to unfinished tales for our eighth of ten episodes
1:45.4	Anadarian and Arendus.
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