"It sounds pretty scary, like some weird cult thing, or, worse yet, some evil relative of the WTO." (Menelvagor, on being quasi-sort of invited to join TEUNC (in the "Sauron's Diary" thread in AFT, October 19, 2000)

Zir's reply: "We worship CHOKLIT and Tolkien, and revere the works of Julian May [or at least, *he* did], mais, that doesn't make us a cult."

"And so, in conclusion, , we are enlightened and cult-ured (which is probably how that 'cult' rumor got started), and we believe there is no dog but Fido. And there is definitely no spoon!" (LaurieF, 10/20/2000)