Mar 16, 2026
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
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