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Originally Posted by Lush
If anything, it's a cool literary device, no? Made me think of an enormous cyclops the first time I read the book. *shiver*
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Something like this perhaps?
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Originally Posted by Lush
Also, it makes you think of the common expression - "a third eye," the ability to see beyond physical things, telepathy, power, etc. When Pushkin, for example, refers to a kind of Slavic fairy princess as having a "star blazing on her forehead," he's actually symbolizing her third eye, her power and wisdom.
Anyway, that's what I was thinking about as I was being wowed by creep-tastic Sauron.
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I've little to add but that's a good point about the third eye.
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