Tolkien's Secret Hidden Code

[Morthoron]

I read the book blurb on Amazon:

This is probably the most controversial book ever published on Tolkien's 'Great Work' and possibly one of the most important.

Seriously? At 248 pages, I am wondering if the print is double-spaced and includes copious illustrations to flesh it out -- perhaps blank endpapers and a frontispiece as well. This sounds more like it should be a long, rambling post on a Tolkien forum. It certainly isn't a peer-reviewed academic work. Nothing I've read from Christopher Tolkien or any Tolkien scholar like Shippey or Flieger indicates cryptic codes or arcane anagrams hidden in Tolkien's work.

The question that seems most germane here is....why? To what purpose?

But the author made a serious mistake: If he/she wanted to sell more books, then he/she should have used anagrams to show that Tolkien was an Illuminati involved in a Templar conspiracy. I am sure Tom Hanks has another movie left in him.