They stumble into the cave of a lonely, sexually repressed, homosexual troll, and -- hango n.. who am i talking about here? **goes to gaze into mirror for an hour.
n-no, the person is a "comedy european", not the film. And that's not suggesting he's a comedian eiher. God, did NO-ONE spot what i'm talking about in Corpse Bride?
Poles and n-gons only matter if they affect the end product. It's all situational. If it bakes the normal map fine or animates in the way you want, they don't matter.
A quick, and really the only way, is to simply connect the verts together forming tris/quads. Anything to maintain the shape, rather than a really large n-gon.