The Lord of the Rings Code

[Oddwen]

My goodness. Such goings on!

With the ELS set to 9, the number of the fellowship (but also the number of Black Riders), I seem to have uncovered what seemingly is are tabloid headlines.


55.DRAT! 19.HENNA 26.WONT (won't) 68.GET ON (the) 73.MOON. 16.FAT 12.SEER 27.FEES (are a) 25.DEAL. 50.DIM 28-31.FAUN 4.DID 84.REEK. 20.DEAD 28.FIT (in) 10.BIER. 24.WHET 5.WET 1-3.TEA 13.WHEE!

I do believe that Tolkien was making a few predictions.

Men with dyed hair will never get to the moon. I don't know if this came true or not.

Seers who are fat have better prices. This I don't know either.

A faun who was not-too-bright smelled. Is this some prediction concerning Narnia?

The dead fit in thier biers. I would hope so. Or wait...maybe he was predicting the henious rise in obesity!

Whet wet tea, whee! I'll have to leave this for wiser heads than mine. (Tea again? Hmm.)



And then, on lines 13-18, there is a cryptic message. "IN IN IS". So getting an idea, I took the third letter of my uncovered message and discovered this:

AEANENOAEFSAIADRKAIIWTTAE

I found an online anagrammer, and came up with the cry that Manwë gave when Ar-Pharazon stepped foot upon the blessed shore:

"A(i)! ADA INANE SEA FOE!"

Then again using the magic number 9, I got this:

ANEADAWA

Which turned into:

"Awe and aa!"

Which was obviously the reaction of Ar-Pharazon to the blessed shore.

"Don't the great stories never end?"

They might, but my posts don't. This is a bit involved...


Are we allowed to find words by veering off in totally different directions?
I.E.,

T E M L I I G E Y F W E B I T A E V T N S I D E O T S S H D R Q T
G R T E G G Y M D D S M T R H H A D P D H O T T M S R H Y R S O E
Y O D L D O N W O H E T K L R N I D O I P S G U A D L E E A S U A
S D I D R S E I S O I S Y G E E O S O V T N I I Y A T N I N P N H ??