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TheSquireof Aragorn · 01-05-2004, 07:55 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> 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 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.<P> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Lord of the Rings is open to interpretation, the eye upon Barad-dur is simply Peter Jackson's interpretation. The lord of the rings movies are just PJ's idea of Middle Earth. If you think Sauron did not fit on top of the dark tower, then i ask you, where would he be better suited in a way that people can understand who and what he is?<BR>Another question is, how do we know JRR didn't mean it literally?

01-05-2004, 07:55 PM	#26
TheSquireof Aragorn Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Michigan U.S.A. Posts: 46	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> 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 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.<P> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Lord of the Rings is open to interpretation, the eye upon Barad-dur is simply Peter Jackson's interpretation. The lord of the rings movies are just PJ's idea of Middle Earth. If you think Sauron did not fit on top of the dark tower, then i ask you, where would he be better suited in a way that people can understand who and what he is?<BR>Another question is, how do we know JRR didn't mean it literally? __________________ "One more soldier dies, and when he gets to Heaven, to St.Peter he will tell, one more soldier reporting for duty, I've served my time in Hell."