The lighthouse of Mordor

[Arcuwen]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>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><P>I completely agree, doug*platypus. When I read the books, I viewed it the same way, only certain people could see the eye, and when they did, it was in their own mind, not stuck up on some tower shooting out orange light. Sauron had no physical form at the time, so how could he be seen as an obviously tangible eye? As for the spotlight, it reminded me of a cheesy video game...