Talk:Eye of Sauron (disambiguation)

message: 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)
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:: Is it really a change from the book?  After all, the opening scene depicts Sauron in physical form.  He lost that form whan he lost the Ring.  Perhaps the form that Gollum saw was more of an ethereal form. PrometheusX303 00:53, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is really a change. In addition to Gollum having seen Sauron's form there are also several references to Sauron having reformed in the Third Age and Tolkien states specifically in a letter that Sauron had the form of a large, "but not gigantic", humanoid when describing what a confrontation between Sauron and Aragorn or another potential Ring-bearer might have been like. Further, there are references to the 'Eye of Sauron' in the Second Age while he had a physical form and even a reference to Morgoth having a similar 'eye' effect... while he never lost his physical form until he was cast out. Thus, to all appearances, the 'Eye' was a manifestation of will used by Sauron (and Morgoth) while he had a physical body. --CBDunkerson 10:43, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: "It has also been noted that the eye of Sauron bears an [sic] Freudian similarity to a vagina." Uthanc 00:47, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
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