Talk:Eye of Sauron
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Sauron's eye is not an eye in any physical sense, at least not in the book. That conception of the eye of Sauron exists only in the first two movies. RK
- One of the oddest changes from the book is that Sauron doesn't have a body; Saruman tells Gandalf that he isn't yet able to 'take physical form'. It's hard to see how this could be true - what use would the Ring be to Sauron, if he didn't have a finger to wear it on? The book makes it very clear that he does have a physical form - 'He has only four {fingers} on the Black Hand, but they are enough', says Gollum in The Two Towers, and this is confirmed explicitly by Tolkien among his letters. Actually, this does seem to be a misinterpretation rather than a deliberate change, because Peter Jackson has himself described Sauron in at least one interview as being a no more than a floating eyeball. (Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: A Movie-goer’s Guide, from The Encyclopedia of Arda)
- The Encyclopedia of Arda (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm)
"In the book The Lord of the Rings, the Eye of Sauron refers to Sauron's ability learn about and maintain contact with his spies throughout the realm of Middle-earth."
I find this sentence very odd. I never read or heard anything before which suggested something like that. Furthermore, the Eye seems to be an actual thing, which can be seen. Frodo sees the Eye when he looks into the Mirror of Galadriel. When Frodo is looking at the Dark Tower from Amon Hen "...suddenly he felt the Eye. There was an eye in the Dark Tower that did not sleep. He knew that it had become aware of his gaze." And the Akallabêth states "...the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure." See also the Witch-king's words in the chapter "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields" in The Return of the King. The sentence above does not seem to fit with these citations. The Eye of Sauron seems to be something in the Dark Tower, but is not equated with Sauron (as in the movies). Eric119 00:08, 2003 Dec 11 (UTC)