JRR TOLKEIN SINGS THE ALPHABET

LEGEND

LETTER SENSE ARCH-OF-TYPE SPUN-PUNS

1 F WAW FRUIT, CONCIEVE PISCES 1-2 (3) GOD THE FATHER

2 E HE EDIFY, PRAISE PISCES

3 D DALETH DO, DO GOOD AERIES 3-4 (7) GOD THE SON

4 G GIMEL GOAD, WORRY ARIES-SPRING EQUINOX

5 B BETH BUILD, TRUST TAURUS 6-5 (11) GOD THE SPIRIT

6 A ALEPH ASCEND, AAAAAAHH TAURUS

7 Z ZAYIN ZENITH, ZION, ZAP GEMINI 7-8 (15) ZION (EYES-ON – AYIN)

8 H HETH HEARTH, HOLY HILL GEMINI 7-8-9 (24) GOD H(EIGHT)S IDOLS

9 I YOD INFLUENCE, DESIRE CANCER 9-10-11 (30) IDOL

10 TH TETH TURN, LITHSP, IDOL CANCER-SUMMER SOLSTICE 8-9-10-11 (38) HITLER/LILITH

11 L LAMED LASSO, LOVE, LIFE LEO

12 C KAPH CLASP, HOLD ONTO LEO 12 (12) MESSIAH

13 N NUN NURTURE ENEMY VIRGO-(STAR SPICA) 13-14-15 (32) ENEMY

14 M MEM MULTIPLY, MAGNIFY VIRGO 16-15-14-13 (58) SEMEN SEED SPICA

15 O AYIN OVERSEE, EYES LIBRA 15-16-17 (48) HYSSOP – HIS SOAP

16 S SAMEKH STIR, FACE LIBRA-FALL EQUINOX 12-14-15-16 (57) MASHIACH – SAME LIKE US

17 P PE PRONOUNCE, MOUTH SCORPIO

18 TS TSADHE RIGHTEOUS, PROVE SCORPIO

19 R RESH REGULATE SAGITARRIUS 19-18-17-16 (50) DECLARED RIGHTEOUS

20 Q QOPH QUALIFY, PURIFY SAGITARRIUS

21 SS SIN/SHIN SING, SATURATE CAPRICORN

22 T TAW TURN THE-END CAPRICORN-WINTER SOLSTICE 19-20-21-22 (72) RESET/BERESIT/REST

23 - --- WATER WORD AQUARIUS (23) T(ONE)TY(THREE)

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JRR TOLKIEN

T H E H O B B I T

Chapter I

An Unexpected Party

P. 9-11 OF COPYRIGHT 1966 EDITION

F In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the

E ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit

D down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

G It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass

B knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tubeshaped hall like a tunnel: a very

A comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted,

Z provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit

H was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into

I the side of the hill - The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it - and many

TH little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going

L upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes

N (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same

M floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side

O (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows

S looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.

Z This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had

H lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them

I very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never

TH had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would

L say on any question without the bother of asking him. This is a story of how a Baggins

N had an adventure, found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may

M have lost the neighbours' respect, but he gained-well, you will see whether he gained

O anything in the end.

F The mother of our particular hobbit ... what is a hobbit? I suppose hobbits need some

E description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they

D call us. They are (or were) a little people, about half our height, and smaller than the

G bearded Dwarves. Hobbits have no beards.

B There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps

A them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come

Z blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off. They are

H inclined to be at in the stomach; they dress in bright colours (chiefly green and yellow);

I wear no shoes, because their feet grow natural leathery soles and thick warm brown hair

TH like the stuff on their heads (which is curly); have long clever brown fingers,

good natured faces, and laugh deep fruity laughs (especially after dinner, which they have

L twice a day when they can get it). Now you know enough to go on with. As I was saying,

N the mother of this hobbit - of Bilbo Baggins, that is - was the fabulous Belladonna Took,

M one of the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took, head of the hobbits who lived

O across The Water, the small river that ran at the foot of The Hill. It was often said (in

S other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife.

P That was, of course, absurd, but certainly there was still something not entirely hobbitlike about them,

- and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have

TS adventures.

TS They discreetly disappeared, and the family hushed it up; but the fact remained that the

R Tooks were not as respectable as the Bagginses, though they were undoubtedly richer.