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doug*platypus · 01-05-2004, 06:53 PM

50 years in the future. Tolkien carefully explains the Eye of Sauron to Jackson in heaven:"Fool!! I didn't mean it literally!!"The big stupid flaming eye is the single worst thing in the movie, most notably ROTK. Difficult for them to show otherwise, but they managed to overcome so many other obstacles that I'm sure a solution to this one could have been found. I never took the Eye of Sauron to be literally a great big ugly eye on top of the Dark Tower for all and sundry to see. I thought it was in the mind of those that could perceive it - Frodo, Galadriel, the Nazgûl, anyone wearing the Ring, Gandalf, Saruman, anyone looking in the Palantír. They definitely should have stopped short of making it a searchlight. That robbed us of some of the most harrowing passages in the book, where Frodo begins to feel the presence of Sauron much closer.

01-05-2004, 06:53 PM	#24
doug*platypus Delver in the Deep Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Aotearoa Posts: 960	50 years in the future. Tolkien carefully explains the Eye of Sauron to Jackson in heaven:<P><B>"Fool!! I didn't mean it literally!!"</B><P>The big stupid flaming eye is the single worst thing in the movie, most notably ROTK. Difficult for them to show otherwise, but they managed to overcome so many other obstacles that I'm sure a solution to this one could have been found. <P>I never took the Eye of Sauron to be literally a great big ugly eye on top of the Dark Tower for all and sundry to see. I thought it was in the mind of those that could perceive it - Frodo, Galadriel, the Nazgûl, anyone wearing the Ring, Gandalf, Saruman, anyone looking in the Palantír. They <B>definitely</B> should have stopped short of making it a searchlight. That robbed us of some of the most harrowing passages in the book, where Frodo begins to feel the presence of Sauron much closer. __________________ But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name'.