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[QUOTE=As an aside, weren't dragon's eyes said to be catlike? Would that have some influence with Sauron choosing that as his military symbol, and his own personal representation of himself?[/QUOTE]
This part at least I feel safe speculating on. In all proababilty Sauron (or Tolkein) chose the eye to be slit pupiled and catlike simply because, to a human that is more menacing. we have a prettly deeply ingrained racial terror of things with slit pupiled eyes way back when we were cavemen, most of the things that had eyes like that (big cats, big reptiles like crocodiles very large lizards (I'm thinking of somthing like Australia's fear lizard here NOT dinosaurs) were predetors of us or at least degerous to us (like poisonous snakes) such eyes are also usually only found on nocturnal animals and we've alaways been a little afraid of tem as well.
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