Tolkien or Antidepressant?

[George K]

Take the quiz:

https://antidepressantsortolkien.now.sh

I've never read any Tolkien other than the first ⅓ of Fellowship of the Ring, so I scored poorly - 13/24.

[Mik]

Yeah, I just could not slog through it.

[jon-nyc]

Read none of the books. Got dragged to the second movie but it was unintelligible to a newbie. They assumed you knew the story or had at least seen the first one.

[jon-nyc]

But the idea of this quiz is funny. I saw it a few days ago and laughed without having to click on it.

[Doctor Phibes]

I think I've read the books about 8 or 9 times, first time when I was 11 after stumbling across The Hobbit when I was 10. I was obsessed with them as a teenager.

I've never taken an anti depressant, but all my friends do.

I'm kidding, of course. I don't have any friends.

[LuFins Dad]

Fantastic quiz! 10/24, btw.

[Copper]

12/24 - lots of guesses

I remember in the 60s those books being popular among hippie types.

Of course I have watched all the movies but I, obviously, didn't memorize the names.

[Catseye3]

I can't read Tolkien, I've discovered. Loved the movie, but slogging through the prose was a total drag.

12/24.

[bachophile]

19/24

And I’m with phibes, read the trilogy numerous times. First time about age 15. Last time about a couple of years ago. A masterpiece.

[brenda]

Had I not remembered Bilbo Baggins. It would have all been mere guessing.
12/24

[Horace]

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[Loki]

@brenda said in Tolkien or Antidepressant?:

Had I not remembered Bilbo Baggins. It would have all been mere guessing.
12/24

Almost the same except I recognized several real drugs. I don’t believe all are antidepressants.

[Aqua Letifer]

23/24, bitches. (Guessed on 3-4 though.)

[Loki]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Tolkien or Antidepressant?:

23/24, bitches. (Guessed on 3-4 though.)

Very Impressive. I’ve seen the movies multiple times and read The Hobbit out-loud but couldn’t retain any of the names...well at least the more obscure ones in the test.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Loki said in Tolkien or Antidepressant?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Tolkien or Antidepressant?:

23/24, bitches. (Guessed on 3-4 though.)

Very Impressive. I’ve seen the movies multiple times and read The Hobbit out-loud but couldn’t retain any of the names...well at least the more obscure ones in the test.

I've read a lot of the weird shit, too, which helps. The Lays of Beleriand was really helpful to me when I was getting my Master's, along with Auden's Age of Anxiety and the letters between the two regarding alliterative verse.

When they came out I gobbled up The Children of Húrin, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, and Beren and Lúthien.

A lot of the non-LOTR stuff, too: The Monsters and the Critics, his version of Sir Gawain, the Beowulf translation, etc.

I also extracted all the songs and poems from the Hobbit and LOTR and made an eBook of them to read on my Kobo.

Big damn nerd.