Ah yes, I had indeed forgotten MS553. My memory isn’t what it was (if it ever was what it was, so to speak…), which does make another Black Numenorean as unnecessary as (yet another) Witchking. Still, if it’s what a whole 12 people want, then we have to accept it – which is my sarcastic way of pointing out that the number of people who bother to vote is becoming laughable. Where has everybody gone? The voters have always been in a minority in the Fellowship, but I seem to remember that 40–50 voters used to participate most of the time. A sad state of affairs.