The Hobbit in Emoji Language

Rendition of the first paragraph of The Hobbit (1937) in the Emoji Language, on the occasion of J. R. R. Tolkien's 130^th birthday.

Full Text

✌ ⛳👤 ✌
🔘
✌ ↖️✳️ ➕ 🪃 ✌

1️⃣🏅📕🍰
✌ 😲🥳 ✌

🏡⬅️ ⛳👤 📥🕳️ ➰ ✳️⬅️ 📥⛳ ➰

❌✳️⬅️ 👿➕💩➕💦🕳️ ➰ 🔮📬✳️ ➕🪱⏹️⏹️➕⛳🐽 ➰

❌✳️⬅️ 🏜️➕❌🎛️➕🏖️🕳️ ➰ ❌🛄⬅️ 🪑🔘😋📍 📥🤳👉 ➰

✳️⬅️ 👉 ⛳👤🕳️

➕ 🗣️ 🤌 🔳 🥰✳️⬅️ 👉 🔳 ↪️👆👆

Interlinear Translation

✌

⛳👤

ground-person

✌

"The Hobbit"

🔘

✌

↖️✳️

far.away-being

➕

and

🪃

returning

✌

"Being far away and returning"

1️⃣🏅📕🍰

1-ORD-book-part

First Chapter

✌

😲🥳

surprising-party

✌

A surprising party.

🏡⬅️

dwell-PST

⛳👤

ground-person[NOM]

📥🕳️

inside-hole

➰

REL

✳️⬅️

be-PST

📥⛳

inside-ground

➰

REL

A hobbit lived in a hole that was in the ground.

❌✳️⬅️

NEG-be-PST

👿➕💩➕💦🕳️

evil-and-dirty-and-wet-hole

➰

REL

🔮📬✳️

SUBJ-filled-be

➕🪱⏹️⏹️➕⛳🐽

INS-worm-end-PL-and-ground-smell

➰

REL

[It] was not an evil, and dirty, and wet hole that would be filled with ends of worms and earthy smell.

❌✳️⬅️

NEG-be-PST

🏜️➕❌🎛️➕🏖️🕳️

dry-and-simple-and-sandy-hole

➰

REL

❌🛄⬅️

NEG-have-PST

🪑🔘😋📍

sitting-or-eating-place[ACC]

📥🤳👉

inside-REFL-3SG

➰

REL

[It] was not a dry, and simple, and sandy hole that didn't have a place to sit or eat in it.

✳️⬅️

be-PST

👉

3SG

⛳👤🕳️

ground-person-hole

It was a hobbit-hole.

➕

and

🗣️

tell

👈

DIST[NOM]

🔳

SUB

🥰✳️⬅️

comfortable-be-PST

👉

3SG

🔳

SUB

↪️👆👆

to-1PL

And that tells us that it was comfortable.

Glossing Abbreviations

1	first person pronoun
3	third person pronoun
ACC	accusative case
DIST	distal demonstrative
INS	instrumental prefix
NEG	negation prefix
NOM	nominative case
ORD	ordinal suffix
PL	plural number
PST	past tense
REFL	reflexive prefix
REL	relative pronoun
SG	singular number
SUB	subordinate (content) clause
SUBJ	subjunctive mood prefix