# Tolkien's Darkest Tale w/ Aaron Irber

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Podcast: [The Catholic Culture Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155)
Published: 2026-03-16T16:07:25+00:00
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The darkest, and perhaps most underrated, story J.R.R. Tolkien ever wrote was the tale of Túrin Turambar, a great man of the First Age of Middle-Earth, whose life was ruined by the curse of Morgoth (Tolkien's Satan-figure) and by his own pride. The tale, which resembles a Greek tragedy, was given its longest and most satisfying version in the posthumously published book The Children of Hurin . Aaron Irber, host of a podcast "about stories, myths, and Catholicism", joins Thomas to discuss this underappreciated work by Tolkien. Aaron's podcast, I Might Believe in Faeries https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-might-believe-in-faeries/id1584838118 DONATE to make this show possible! http://catholicculture.org/donate/audio SIGN UP for Catholic Culture's newsletter: https://www.catholicculture.org/newsletters

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