Why did Aragorn Warn the Hobbits Three Times NOT to Say the Word “Mordor” on Weathertop?

In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the most powerful weapon of the totalitarian state is the revised dictionary.

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When Confucius was asked which of his 600 principles of ruling he considered the most important, he answered: “The reformation of language.”

In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the most powerful weapon of the totalitarian state is the revised dictionary. If you take a word out of the dictionary, the concept will die too, sooner or later.

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