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Eye of Sauron was the symbol used on armor, shields, etc for the orcs of Mordor. Sauron uses it to show how he “sees all.”

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 but also, in the extended cut of Return of the King, when Aragorn looks in the palantír for a moment he sees in the Eye’s pupil Sauron in his armour from the Fellowship of the Ring prologue, holding the palantír of Minas Morgul. Actually, in the Lord of The Ring books, he is only known as The Evil Eye and as a seperate being with a unknown species controlled by Sauron. In Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia published in 1991, author David Day states that “in the Year 1000 of the Third Age, he [Sauron] manifested himself in the form of one great, lidless Eye. It was like the eye of a huge cat, wreathed with flame, filled with hate, and ringed in darkness.”This portrayal is directly contradicted by a letter in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien in which it is stated that Sauron had a humanoid form at that time, large, but not gigantic. Yet in Silmarillion, in Akallabêth, Tolkien states that “But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which he had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home.

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   I always thought that the ‘eye’ was a bit too literal an interpretation of Sauron, but incredibly I think it worked in...

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    It would have been so amazing if they had only shown him ONCE, maybe when Frodo puts on the Ring at Mount Doom (besides...

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