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Originally Posted by alatar

Anyway, as Tolkienophiles are a minority, I'd hate to see us fractionated.

Well, then, let us avoid fractions, quantums, imaginary numbers, decimals, decibels, and choral bells.

Originally Posted by alatar

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So the question then is, what, if I believed as, say Aragorn or Elrond or Frodo or Galadriel, would be my similar Tolkienesque response?

I'm willing to bet that the one response which would keep all us Tolkienophiles together would be the response that Tolkien himself would likely have resorted to if such a form came to him on a particularly nasty day in the increasing mordorment of our government.

There, I think that says it with as much cryptic aura as possible.