393 – From Me to You (the Sceptre)

The Prancing Pony Podcast

Alan Sisto

Film Reviews, Books, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Aldarion prepares to go from this misenchanted isle of daydreams filled with insolent women; Alan puts 10 pence in the Sara to get her take on said ‘insolent women’. Join The Man of the West and The Shieldmaiden of Rohan as we near the end of Aldarion and Erendis from Unfinished Tales. Aldarion lays out his demands to the King; to soften the blow (and quiet the rumors), Meneldur sends the Sceptre along, “with love, from me to you”; and a letter from Erendis leads Aldarion to a rant that proves she’s damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t. We admire Meneldur’s mic drop moment, decide Aldarion would claim to be a “high-value male” on today’s social media, and speculate about the population density of Númenórean ships. Also, Alan regrets not pronouncing the H. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you listen to Nobody Lists to Paula Poundstone, the comedy podcast, you learn stuff.
0:05.0	I've been learning to throw a boomerang, because this is the kind of thing that really gets the listeners engaged, you know.
0:11.0	Interviews with people who will make you smarter.
0:14.0	Does the amount that you learn protect you from cognitive decline?
0:19.0	Paula don't!
0:20.0	Can't people just listen to the show?
0:23.0	Can't they just enjoy a delightful treehouse full of information?
0:26.5	I think I'm bleeding.
0:27.9	Join us and be a nobody. Good evening, Little Masters, and welcome to episode 393 of the Prancing Pony podcast where I will go from this misenchanted aisle of podcasts where hosts and their insolence would have listeners cringe.
0:55.7	Wow. That sounds like one of your one star reviews. One of the two? I just, no, I wish that were
1:03.2	the case. Well, if Alderian doesn't like the show, frankly, that's fine with me. Yeah, that's okay.
1:07.7	Anyway, 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 will use his days to some purpose elsewhere where he is not scorned. More welcome in honor, Alan Sisto.
1:22.5	Just give me the keys to my houseboat. Let my frat bros join me. All right, folks, join us for Maneldoer's
1:28.5	mic drop moment as we return to unfinished tales and finish part of the story in our ninth of
1:34.5	11 episodes on Aldarian and Arendus. And that's right, we kept pushing discussions off to the
1:39.5	next episode and we're still going over two hours. So we figured we just add one more.
1:44.6	I mean, can you really have too much, Alan and Sarah? Is there such a thing as that?
1:49.6	You might have too much Altarian and horrendous. I mean, it is, we are kind of, yeah.
1:54.3	Now, folks, no matter whether you came to Middle Earth through the books, the films, the TV show,
1:58.5	or something else, each of you is welcome here in our common room.
2:02.2	The Pransy Pony Podcast continues in our tenth season of reading and talking our way through
2:06.4	Middle Earth, with conversations, digressions, and even some speculations.
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