Pippen looking into the Palantir

[Snowdog]

When Sauron is referred to as a flaming eye, I always assumed it was meant in the metaphorical sense, meaning that he isn't actually an eye sitting at the top of his tower but a metaphor for his burning desire and keenness to seek out the ring.

Runtish_weasel, that is pretty much true. I always thought in my mind Sauron was a presence that could conjour the image of an eye in one who saw him, or through the Palantir which he had near him.

Unfortunatly, the movies have most likely tainted people's vision of Sauron to atht of a giant searchlight in a magnetic field.. ..