Antidepressants or Tolkien

I&#x27;m <i>really</i> surprised at what a challenge that turned out to be. I was <i>certain</i> I was gonna have no problems distinguishing drugs from Tolkien characters, but I only got 15&#x2F;24 in the end. Recognized a few obvious brand names and characters, but half the time I had to resort to straight-up guessing. Some of those drug names <i>totally</i> sound like Tolkien characters.

Two of my favorites of this genre are &quot;Ikea Furniture or Metal Band&quot; and &quot;Drug or Pokemon&quot;. I did terribly at the first one since I don&#x27;t know enough metal I guess, but I aced the latter, despite realizing that &quot;Remoraid&quot; actually does sound more like some sort of join pain cream or something than a pokemon.

21&#x2F;24 That was fun, also surprised by the difficulty.<p>Kept slipping up on the less known Gondorian kings.<p>Also if your a filthy casual like me and cba to re-read the Silmarilion, Nerd of the Rings is a, solid YT channel.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCW0gH2G-cMKAEjEkI4YhnPA">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCW0gH2G-cMKAEjEkI4YhnPA</a>

23 of 24. Missed the last one due to a miss click.<p>(I&#x27;ve read the Silmarillion too much it seems.)

If you’ve read The Silmarillion it’s not too difficult, as Elvish names have common construction patterns and sounds.

I’ve often wondered - who are the Madison Avenue don Draper crews of the prescription drug world? How do they all create these terrible names, and terrible commercials around them? There’s clearly some consistency and yet it’s all insane.

23&#x2F;24<p>but there was a few I just got lucky, Clédial got me because I didn&#x27;t expect a drug to have an accent.

The wonderful McSweeney&#x27;s Internet Tendency [0] has a lot of this type of humour.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mcsweeneys.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mcsweeneys.net</a>

Another classic of this genre, brought to you by McSweeney&#x27;s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mcsweeneys.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;armed-band-of-thugs-or-minor-star-wars-character" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mcsweeneys.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;armed-band-of-thugs-or-m...</a>

I never knew sildenafil (marketed as viagra) acted as an antidepressant too, lol

Having recently listened to the Lord of the Rings audiobooks (the read by Andy Serkis ones) I thought this was going to be about escaping into fantasy novels as a way of keeping oneself sane without having to resort to drugs. I also found them to be one of the only effective means of occupying my mind as I was trying to fall asleep so that I didn&#x27;t ruminate myself into insomnia, which of course would leave me in a worse mood the next day.

Reminds me of the classic Sporcle quiz: &quot;Drug or Pokemon?&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sporcle.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;LinkinMarc&#x2F;drug_or_pokemon" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sporcle.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;LinkinMarc&#x2F;drug_or_pokemon</a><p>(and just as baffling)

How not finishing the Silmarillion comes back to bite you

Did anyone do worse than me? I got 11&#x2F;24 :S

21&#x2F;24, and I have to say that there were a lot more tough calls than I expected. One wonders if reading JRRT&#x27;s works has been tested as an antidepressant. I think &quot;Farmer Giles of Ham&quot; was pretty upbeat...

Like that classic Pokemon or Big Data

(2020)<p>From it&#x27;s previous home on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antidepressantsortolkien.now.sh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;antidepressantsortolkien.now.sh&#x2F;</a>

Nardil is unfair

For anyone who is looking for information on the different kinds of antidepressants mentioned in this game (which I failed most completely despite being broadly familiar), here is a great article from Dr. Scott Siskind (aka Scott Alexander of SlateStarCodex&#x2F;AstralCodexTen): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lorienpsych.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;05&#x2F;depression&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lorienpsych.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;05&#x2F;depression&#x2F;</a><p>I am not a huge fan of Siskind on all things but he has a great ability to explain complex topics simply when he is an expert, and he is on this.

How is Sildenafil (Viagra) an antidepressant? Never mind, don&#x27;t answer that

Reminds me of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mariahormessiah.fun&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mariahormessiah.fun&#x2F;</a>

Wtf I got sildenafil which isn’t an antidepressant or tolkien

Reminds me of this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UPx_X3DjXy8">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UPx_X3DjXy8</a>

From the tweet that inspired this game:<p>&quot;Three rings to block reuptake of neurotransmitters And to the post-synaptic receptor bind them.&quot;

18&#x2F;24 - at some point there was a certain pattern to the medications. But then it broke and I got 4 in a row wrong

Sildenafil isn&#x27;t an antidepressant.

Cledíal got me

If you got a good score, was it due to drug or tolkien knowledge? Or evenly both?

Why not both? Speedrun the damned ring back to fucking Mordor. Up yours, Sauron!

21&#x2F;24.<p>I’ll atone by re-reading now.

20 out of 24 not too bad.

This is beautiful.

Enigma

15&#x2F;24, so only slightly better than a coin flip.<p>The names with tildes in them were giveaways, though.