Sauron the Eye - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Reg Pither · 02-05-2004, 05:35 AM

I, too, think that Sauron must have had some sort of corpereal form. To be honest, I think PJ's ridiculously literal interpretation of 'the Eye of Sauron' was one of the worst things in the films. In the books, the Eye was always a simple metaphor for the spread of Sauron's power, will and influence. (Including a bit of palantir use, of course...). So to see it actually depicted as a giant Eye acting as a searchlight was just embarassing.

02-05-2004, 05:35 AM	#1
Reg Pither Pile O'Bones Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: London Posts: 23	I, too, think that Sauron must have had some sort of corpereal form. To be honest, I think PJ's ridiculously literal interpretation of 'the Eye of Sauron' was one of the worst things in the films. In the books, the Eye was always a simple metaphor for the spread of Sauron's power, will and influence. (Including a bit of palantir use, of course...). So to see it actually depicted as a giant Eye acting as a searchlight was just embarassing.