{"podcast":{"title":"Mythic Mind","slug":"mythic-mind-4015256","podcast_index_feed_id":4015256,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5808321/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/mythic-mind","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/08b9ca7565c1c6b57db8c194c6b00a55.jpg","author":"Andrew Snyder","episode_count":183,"summary":"Mythic Mind pursues wisdom on the pathways between primary and secondary worlds. Tolkien, Lewis, and adjacent material tend to take a leading role. To support my work and gain access to exclusive and early content, voting power, and more, head over to https://www.patreon.com/mythicmind Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T08:19:06.578487+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-4015256"},"episode":{"title":"171 - Tolkien on Allegory and Application","slug":"171-tolkien-on-allegory-and-application","published_at":"2026-06-08T17:57:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-4015256/171-tolkien-on-allegory-and-application","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-4015256","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/171-tolkien-on-allegory-and-application--72418606","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72418606/mux_media_audio_extraction_a2e9b525_dff1_4724_b6d5_4ad599975781.mp3","summary":"Tolkien is known to despise allegory, but he is also clear that fiction, including his own, has a relationship with the primary world that can be used as a conduit for truth. In this lesson from the 2025 Lord of the Rings study, I discuss Tolkien's approach to allegory and application. Purchase the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, here: Purchase Course Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/c9-2YjcmxnM Become a patron of Mythic Mind at patreon.com/mythicmind Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: Mythic Mind Mythic Mind Games Mythic Mind Movies & Shows (or become a patron to get all three shows in one ad-free feed) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support .","meta_description":"Tolkien is known to despise allegory, but he is also clear that fiction, including his own, has a relationship with the primary world that can be used as…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1980,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mythic-mind-4015256/episodes/171-tolkien-on-allegory-and-application/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mythic-mind-4015256/171-tolkien-on-allegory-and-application.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}