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Originally Posted by Ren the Unclean
I have always found the evil characters interesting.
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Wouldn't have guessed that from your screen name...
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Originally Posted by Nerwen
At most you can say something like, "he had the symptoms of X" or "might have been diagnosed with Y if he'd been a real person".
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Or you could have been charitable and assumed that this was what he meant.
I know what you mean though concerning the hype about some disorders - back in the good old days it was en vogue to talk and write about Hamlet's Oedipus complex, nowadays it's ADHD, Bipolar and Asperger's. (I dimly remember a thread from some years ago that proposed Bilbo and Frodo were Aspies...)
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Originally Posted by Cirdan
And was Melkor tired, depressed and suicidal? -the other "pole"?
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This is were
Ren's diagnosis fails, I think. I'm sure Melkor was a hell unto himself, but he had lots of energy, and all his aggression was turned outside, none on himself.
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Originally Posted by Morthoron
I wonder if one can even state a divinity or angelic being (albeit, a fictional deity) can exhibit any form of mental illness or ailments whatsoever.
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If I remember correctly, Tolkien himself said somewhere in
Morgoth's Ring that M. was insane by the time of the War of Wrath, contrasting him with Sauron, but I don't have the book to quote it.
Anyway, welcome to the Downs,
Ren! Being undead by nature, you should feel at home here.
