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Antidepressant Brand Name, or Elf Character from Middle-Earth?

Wait till Big Pharma hears how melancholy elves are

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Fun fact: Both elves and antidepressant users project a facade of imperious calm, barely concealing a burning desire to leave these shores for Valinor, the Land across the Sea. [Photos: Warner Bros. Pictures and Flickr]

1. Anafranil

2. Celebrimbor

3. Celexa

4. Cymbalta

5. Idril

6. Desyrel

7. Viibryd

8. Fingolfin

9. Trintellix (formerly known as Brintellix)

10. Figwit (also known as Aegnor)

11. Glorfindel

12. Sarafem

13. Círdan

14. Luvox

15. Lúthien

16. Pexeva

17. Elrond

18. Haldir

19. Thranduil

20. Tofranil

21. Pristiq

Answers

Antidepressants: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 20, 21
Elves: 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19

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Ethan Gilsdorf
Greener Pastures Magazine

Ethan Gilsdorf is a journalist, memoirist, essayist, critic, poet, teacher, performer and nerd. Read more at ethangilsdorf.com and Twitter @ethanfreak.