23 ANAGRAMS

Anagrams (hidden words within a word or phrase) were part of the LOST background.

A generator for "Jack Shepherd" reveals 23 anagrams. 23 was Jack's candidate number. Huh.

Anagrams for: jackshepherd

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Jack Shepherd
Jacked Rep Shh
Jacked Per Shh
Paced Jerk Shh
Caped Jerk Shh
Chad Hep Jerks
Chap Shed Jerk
Jack Shred Hep
Jack Herds Hep
Jack Sherd Hep
Jacks Herd Hep
Cap Jerked Shh
Hadj Heck Reps
Hadj Hecks Rep
Hadj Hecks Per
Hadj Peck Hers
Hadj Speck Her
Hadj Pecks Her
Jar Pecked Shh
Jack Ed Rep Shh
Jack Ed Per Shh
Cap Ed Jerk Shh
Jar Peck Ed Shh

Cap Jerked Shh . . .  Jack was a CAPtive, he was clearly JERKED around on the island and in the O6 arc, and SHH, the revelation came to him in churches.

SOKEMEN

The anagram contained in "smoke monster" reveals SOKEMEN STORM.

Sokemen are defined as middle ages European tenants on property who provide specified services or payment of rent but not military service to the free holder.

The smoke monster was never explained in the series. But the producers and writers were keen on sticking anagrams into the show.

If the smoke monster(s) were island "tenants," it would appear from legend of the Others that the smoke monster(s) were "security guards" protecting the island from outsiders.  But who were the land owners?

Crazy Mother and Jacob were "guardians" of the island, not owners. A guardian is a person who is appointed to look after a person or property because of a legal disability, including being a minor.

A storm is a violent airborne force of nature that has destructive powers. The manifestation of smokey in smoke form does transform into a deadly tornado.

So we have a potential hierarchy on the island:

The island's owner.
The island guardian who manages the island for the owner.
The island's tenant(s), who are smoke monsters.

Working up, since the smoke monsters are supernatural beings, one can then assume that the island itself is a supernatural place.

We know the island guardians were immortal beings, who could grant immortality to other souls who arrived on the island (as Jacob did to Alpert). But that immortality could be extinguished, apparently by a non-guardian under vague circumstances such as reversion to a human form. This suggests that the island guardians were not humans, but manifestations of human beings such as spirits.

Logically, the island owner would be someone who has greater power or authority over immortals, spirits or supernatural beings. But somehow, that person is put into check by some form of immaturity or status. It could be a god, or child-god. Or, the island could be its own intelligence - - - as native American Indians believed that all things, human, earth, stone, sky and animal, had souls - - -  but unable to communicate to the world around it.

The idea that the smoke monster(s) are allowed to live on the island in exchange for protecting it is a intriguing possibility to explain the motivations of MIB/Flocke. Perhaps, the smoke monster(s), including Jacob, could not evolve except on the island. Or that they were bound to their island tenancy like sharecroppers or slaves to the island master. And the only way to break that lease was to die at the hands of lowly but non-evil human beings who were not corrupted by the island power. (This seems unlikely in the case of Ben, who lusted for power, as he killed Jacob.)

If the smoke monster(s) were killed off in the series, then what would happen to the island? Normally, one needs someone to work the land in order to preserve it. If there were no spiritual tenants to keep the balance on the island, would it have sunk to the bottom of the ocean, killing everyone else on it? That is a possibility as Hurley's guardianship reign seemed as short as Jack's.

KEYWORDS

LOST was about fan exploration and finding hidden meanings in each episode.

In that regard, here are keywords associated with various characters:

CHARACTER 1: smile, mainline, asinine, lineman, seminal, alumni, insane, jumble, menial, nebula, nimble, simile, usable, abuse, alibi, alien, amuse, annul, blame.

CHARACTER 2: geyser, heresy, heroes, gorse, horse, house, rogue, rough, rouse, shore, shrug, sough, surge, usher, goer, gory, gush, hero, huge, rosy.

CHARACTER 3: choke, clone, colon, coke, cone, cool, echo, neck, nock, hole, hone, hook, jock, joke, lone, loon, one.

CHARACTER 4: serfdom, deform, adore, arose, dream, frame, major, smear, arse, dame, dare, deaf, deja, dose, fade, fame, fear, foam, jade, more, read, roam.

CHARACTER 5: nauseate, astute, attune, estate, nausea, statue, eaten, satan, snake, stake, state, stunt, taken, tease, tense, ante, east, keen, sane.

CHARACTER 6: Apache, arcade, phrase, preach, sacred, scrape, search, spread, ahead, cadre, caper, chase, crash, parse, reach, share, space, spare, spark.

Can you match those characteristic words to a specific LOST character?

It came to me that the character names may contain hidden meaning because words matter to writers. So I decided to run an experiment by putting main character names into an anagram generator to find keywords to see if those results matched the characters personality traits on the show.

Those were some of the results for six main characters on LOST.

The characters associated with each result:

1. Ben
2. Hugo
3. John
4. James
5. Kate
6. Jack

S6E9 TITLE ANAGRAM

The episode title "Ab Aeterno" has an anagram: "boar eaten."