Since I figured it might be something worthwhile, inspired by talcko, I decided to try to find all of the backwards cryptic pieces of text hidden in the images of the various websites we've discovered so far.

I came up with image:this image.

Granted, only some of the text is legible, but after googling the snippets that were readable, I came up with the following paragraph.

To me, this sounded like standard contract mumbo-jumbo, so I consulted a lawyer-type friend of mine, thinking he could shed some light on the subject. He assured me that it was a verbatim quote from the second chapter of Tolkien's "The Hobbit."
In the story, this is a letter written by a band of 13 Dwarves who spent the night at Bilbo's place. Bilbo didn't notice the letter until it was pointed out to him by Gandalf on the mantle, under the clock.


Some people were thinking I photoshopped some random shit together to come to this conclusion, but I can assure you that it's all taken directly from images found around our little universe.
If you don't believe me, you can download the photoshop document. (MEGAUPLOAD, ~10MB)
No actual pixels of the original images is distorted, aside from being flipped horizontally. The color and contrast is changed via an adjustment layer, and any removed pixels still have active masks.

Whoa.

Seriously...really interesting find. This has easily got to be the most an album has ever fucked with my head before I even heard it. Thanks for putting that all together.

Finally something new! What what in da butt. Cool find, thanks for posting.

I have the book, and can confirm that this actually is the case (not that I doubted morethanshapes). It's on the second page of chapter two...

Weird...

So how does this connect with the rest? Maybe someone behind this simply likes the book..

So has anyone bought 13dwarves.com yet?

Yup, that's what i was thinking

If you look at http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/end.htm, there's a bit of the text in the bottom post.

"erms: cash o"

Not much, but it's something.

And yes, it's probably just that one of the creators likes the Hobbit. But there are no other leads right now, so why not?

notice how in the paragraph quoted it says "Terms: Cash On.."

I was telling him where to find a part of the paragraph he posted because I saw it earlier. You know, for THE IMAGE HE'S MAKING.

Wow. Another legitimate discovery... It's about time.

This is why I'm not so into this ARG, I mean, when the possible finds are so limited,(i.e. leaking shit sporatically) that we have to analyze the chopped up text used as a background, or trying to break into the voicemail system where a message is played. We as players are a brute force, and the creators aren't taking advantage of that.

whoa!
i inspired someone.. hehe.. thanks for the mention.. im working now with the dots.. and the green squares.. and the red squares.. and every f**king thing that looks strange in the backgrounds... maybe we'll find something else...

Personally I'm pretty confident that they wouldn't just throw this in there because they liked the book. It's a pretty... odd passage to be thrown in just by a fan, I'd say.

Now we have to ask what else we can derive from this... Could any of the numbers be important? 12 dwarves? Chapter 2? One fourteenth?

13.2.1/14 could it follow the same halo.track.letter scheme....if so..it would be the day the whole world went away....track 2 being starfuckers inc. the first letter being S the 14th being C....just a thought

second page, chapter two
Might that be another confirmation that this story takes place in the year 2022?

Welcome to ARGs.

Maybe it means that he's done after this. Bilbo Baggins 111th birthday is essentially his farewell party. Maybe it means after Year Zero he's dissapearing.

i suppose you could deduce that the themes of LOTR - good vs evil, a long and trying journey etc. fit in as a similie. as an integral part of the conspiracy? i'm not sure.




(also trent is well short lolz - sorry, keyboard tourettes)

Well, more than just being about "good vs evil", LOTR is a pretty blatant commentary on the values of "the people" opposed to government control and industrialization...

I'm not so sure that page numbers are reliable numbers to use in this instance; different editions of the book may have different text on different pages, depending on how big the print and pages were, etc. etc. But, you never know for sure. Either way, there doesn't seem like there's a lot to go on yet, but it's definitely worth keeping our eyes open.