Eye of Sauron - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Archaic Elf · 07-31-2011, 12:01 AM

What significance was there in having Sauron represented as a disembodied eye living on the top of the tower of Barad-Dur? Why that shape and not just a shadow of a man or something else? Did Tolkien want us to dig deeper and figure that out or possibly make connections with our own modern society?

Look at these two images (from Wikipedia, so shouldn't cause a problem):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../8e/Mordor.jpg
Barad-Dur

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ted_States.jpg
US Currency

(Did they have money in Mordor?)

Two images of an eye on top of a tall structure. Not to raise an issue of the US being like Mordor (I happen to like this country), but to ask the question...what significance do you attach to the eye of Sauron?

07-31-2011, 12:01 AM	#1
Archaic Elf Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: USA Posts: 33	Eye of Sauron What significance was there in having Sauron represented as a disembodied eye living on the top of the tower of Barad-Dur? Why that shape and not just a shadow of a man or something else? Did Tolkien want us to dig deeper and figure that out or possibly make connections with our own modern society? Look at these two images (from Wikipedia, so shouldn't cause a problem): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../8e/Mordor.jpg Barad-Dur http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ted_States.jpg US Currency (Did they have money in Mordor?) Two images of an eye on top of a tall structure. Not to raise an issue of the US being like Mordor (I happen to like this country), but to ask the question...what significance do you attach to the eye of Sauron?