Look at *differences* between words rather than at the words themselves?

[-JKP-]

Yikes, two hours.

My immediate reaction, of course, was, "Write a script!" but they didn't have that option in the Middle Ages.   :-)

PS, I commend your choice of The Hobbit.

Now... a classical Latin version of The Hobbit?  


My first instinct was to look at letter position within words and your sample does indeed have some of those idiosyncracies.