{"podcast":{"title":"The Catholic Culture Podcast","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155","podcast_index_feed_id":1139155,"rss_url":"https://catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.catholicculture.org","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/c/b/9/1cb947e761033b53/CCpodcast-2021-Square3000x3000.png","author":"Thomas V. Mirus","episode_count":255,"summary":"In-depth discussions of all things Catholic - theology, art, history and more - featuring Thomas Mirus with a variety of notable guests. A production of CatholicCulture.org.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T08:18:32.638893+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155"},"episode":{"title":"Tolkien's Darkest Tale w/ Aaron Irber","slug":"tolkien-s-darkest-tale-w-aaron-irber","published_at":"2026-03-16T16:07:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155/tolkien-s-darkest-tale-w-aaron-irber","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155","url":"https://catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com/tolkiens-darkest-tale-w-aaron-irber","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/catholicculturepodcast/214.mp3?dest-id=669698","summary":"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","meta_description":"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, wh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4529,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155/episodes/tolkien-s-darkest-tale-w-aaron-irber/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-catholic-culture-podcast-1139155/tolkien-s-darkest-tale-w-aaron-irber.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}