{"id":298367,"date":"2026-10-17T18:21:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/tolkiens-darkest-tale-w-aaron-irber\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T18:21:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:21:34","slug":"tolkiens-darkest-tale-w-aaron-irber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/tolkiens-darkest-tale-w-aaron-irber\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien&#8217;s Darkest Tale w\/ Aaron Irber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Mar 16, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The darkest, and perhaps most underrated, story J.R.R. Tolkien<br \/>\never wrote was the tale of T\u00farin Turambar, a great man of the First<br \/>\nAge of Middle-Earth, whose life was ruined by the curse of Morgoth<br \/>\n(Tolkien&#8217;s Satan-figure) and by his own pride. The tale, which<br \/>\nresembles a Greek tragedy, was given its longest and most<br \/>\nsatisfying version in the posthumously published book <em>The<br \/>\nChildren of Hurin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Irber, host of a podcast &#8220;about stories, myths, and<br \/>\nCatholicism&#8221;, joins Thomas to discuss this underappreciated work by<br \/>\nTolkien.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron&#8217;s podcast, I Might Believe in Faeries <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/i-might-believe-in-faeries\/id1584838118\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/i-might-believe-in-faeries\/id1584838118<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DONATE to make this show possible! <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP for Catholic Culture&#8217;s newsletter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/tolkiens-darkest-tale-w-aaron-irber\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 16, 2026 The darkest, and perhaps most underrated, story J.R.R. Tolkien ever wrote was the tale of T\u00farin Turambar, a great man of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}