With which Human culture of Middle Earth do you have the greatest affinity?

[Nogrod]

Even though I'm a Finn (soon turning 40...) and thence I feel a great affinity to the people like the woodsmen, the Lake-town people and Beornings - and also the people of old in Arnor possibly (even though I have quit a faint view of them) - I must probably vote for the Gondorians.

Now I may be mistaken but I have always associated the great cities of Gondor (not just Minas Tirith but even more the southern cities like Dol-Amroth) with learning and multiculturalism; different palates and music, different customs and codes co-existing peacefully under the moral principles of freedom and justice. And as places where people can still unite under the banner of their ideals more than with their ethnicity or creed. They kind of remind me of the ancient Rome (at it's best), Holland of the late Middle-Ages, Paris of the enlightenment (not the horrors of the revolution), London and New York today (I'm deeply moved by the "down the street" reaction of people in both of those cities in the hour of despair as seen lately).

But I'm witholding my vote as yet to hear whether you better-educated will crash my idealistic views on Gondor...