If the release of the movie Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has rekindled your imagination for all things Hobbit, now you can talk the talk.

        Chris Wetherell, a computer whiz and musician in California, has created a Web site that interprets names into Hobbit names.

        How it works is a little complicated, but basically it takes the first and last letter of each name and then, based on a character set, expresses those letters as a two-digit key. That sends the program to a particular name in an index of Hobbit names that have been typed in from the Lord of the Rings books.

        Don't get it? OK, you type in your first name and watch as a Hobbit name pops up.

        Take these famous Tristaters for example. George Clooney would be known as Ponto Gamgee Whitfurrows. If Natalie Portman had been a Hobbit, she would be called Dimple Sandydowns.

        Or look at what happens to these notable Cincinnati names from the small screen:

        Anne Marie Tiernon, WLWT (Channel 5) news anchor: Daisy Gamgee-Took of Bywater.

        Betsy Ross, ESPN news anchor: Orangeblossom Moss of Lake-By-Downs.

        Bill Hemmer, CNN reporter: Todo Toadfoot of Frogmorton.

        Rocky Carroll, The Agency: Samwise Knotwise of Michel Delving.

        Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City: Ruby Danderfluff.

       To generate your Hobbit name, go to www.chriswetherell.com.

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