The lighthouse of Mordor

[Lachwen]

I actually liked the way PJ showed the Eye of Sauron (though the spotlight bit did seem a bit over-the-top for me). Remember, when Isildur cut the Ring from Sauron's hand, he lost a lot of his power, because he had it bound up in the Ring. So he's gained some power by the time of the War of the Ring, but not enough to make himself a body and a scary suit of armor like he had at the end of the Second Age. I do think Tolkien literally meant an Eye at the top of Barad-dûr, but the searchlight going over Gorgoroth still looked a bit funny.<P>And, yes, that was a very amusing take on Sauron's fall. However, I much prefered the way it was depicted in the books.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> And as the Captains gazed south to the Land of Mordor, it seemed to them that, black against the pall of cloud, there rose a huge shape of shadow, impenetrable, lightning-crowned, filling all the sky. Enormous it reared above the world, and stretched out towards them a vast threatening hand, terrible but impotent: for even as it leaned over them, a great wind took it, and it was all blown away, and passed: and then a hush fell. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I find that a much better ending (sends chills up my spine every time I read it!) than: "Oh, crud, I'm falling! Oh, crud, I'm exploding!" It seemed a little anti-climactic to me.