Eyes of Sauron
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Eyes of Sauron
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
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Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On The Final Photograph
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"Concealed within his fortress, the lord of Mordor sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame."
-Saruman
Eye of Sauron also known as the Great Eye and the Eye, was the symbol used on armor, shields, etc. for the Orcs of Mordor. Sauron uses it as a metaphor to show how he "sees all." The eye was attracted to the Ring so whenever someone has on the Ring the eye will look at the Ring. In Tolkien's novels, the Eye of Sauron, as a giant flaming eyeball, was not Sauron's shape. Sauron has or had a physical, man-like form.
The term is often used to apply to Sauron himself within The Lord of the Rings, and, as a result, Peter Jackson actually depicted the Dark Lord as a floating, fiery eye in his Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. In the extended cut of Return of the King, when Aragorn looks in the palant'r for a moment, he sees in the Eye's pupil Sauron in his armour from the Fellowship of the Ring prologue, holding the palant'r of Minas Morgul, as if the Eye was a chamber with its pupil being a window. That is consistent with Tolkien's letter stating that "Sauron had a humanoid form, large, but not gigantic" and also, with the description in the books in which the Eye is on the top-most floor of the Tower.
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November 27th, 2013
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