Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/18/can-you-tell-the-difference-be-2.html
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I either need to read more Tolkien or take more drugs…
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22 out of 24! I did great!
Oh wait, now I understand what that says about me.
Now I’m sad.
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18 out of 24! That was good fun! Those Numenorian kings sure have a very antidepressant air.
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I got 16 out of 24…
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15 out of 24… that would make me sad, but I took my Cirdan today!
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Last time I had to go, I used the drive thru!
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OK, whatever flows your boat!
16 of 24. Damn, that was tougher than I thought. But I do feel it was cheating to throw random accent marks onto antidepressants to make them look more Tolkein-ish!
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If you’re like me and don’t do fun, here is the names with descriptions and code for the quiz:
https://antidepressantsortolkien.now.sh/scripts/app.js
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Couple dozen (or so) years ago i was hauled (kicking and screaming) into a marketing meeting of a small pharma company. My role was to be the science advice (think dilbert with less hair). The goal was to be setting a name for the latest wonder drug. I rattled off several of the pertinent IUPAC chemical structural names. “nah! no one can pronounce diphenyl… piperidineeel… see!?” so hours of checking a database of already trademarked names against snappy phonemes later, with lots of cursing, and finally a marketing guy with some music training says “look this stuff supposedly works fast, right? so ‘allegro’ but that’s taken, so…” (in the end, my presence was pointless, of course)
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21 of of 24. a couple i was CERTAIN were one or the other, and was wrong, and the one drug with an accent mark threw me. (really? since when do they get accent marks??)
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Great quiz, its been some time since i’ve read the books so i figured i would do poorly (13 out of 24). If they pulled names from Simarillion i knew i was going to be screwed because i have little interest in reading it… best i’ve been able to do is read through story summaries.
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- The lineage of Gondor totally defeated me.
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This is hard… seen all the LOTR movies multiple times, got an 11/24.
16 right, I suspect that several of the Tolkien names came from the Silmarillion which I was never able to get more than about 1/4 of the way through.
You can do a great quiz with prescription drugs and Japanese movie monsters too. I compiled one to use as an icebreaker for presentations.
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17 out of 24. I went past halfway with a perfect record and got cocky. I guess I forgot to take my Alatar this morning…
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15/24 here, and the Simarillion was my Tolkien death as well.
Perhaps trying to get through it in third grade was the problem, and I would have been able to get through it if I had started on Tolkien later. I wonder how many of us “lost to Tolkien” simply started a bit too early…
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“Bilbo. Seems too simple. What if it’s a double bluff? I can imagine some pharmaceutical nerds using it as a drug name…”
Dammit.
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