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I Googled it, and somebody on the internet says this:
"Peter Jackson decided to throw in a line about how Sauron could not yet take physical form, hence the flaming eyeball. This wasn’t in the book. I think Jackson didn’t want to show an embodied Sauron, which would have made him seem less threatening and like just another movie monster.
In the book, we have only the vaguest of hints about what Sauron looked like. He was larger than a man, and man-like, but not gigantic. Gollum saw him in person and said that he was missing one finger. His skin was black. When he was killed at the end of the Second Age, it was also hot enough to set someone on fire, and it probably retained that quality when he reincarnated himself in the Third Age.
I believe, and others may reasonably disagree, that the Eye of Sauron was actually an image that appeared in the minds of people who were sensitive to it. Galadriel could see it. Frodo saw it at times, and could feel it looking for him. As he got closer and closer to the Cracks of Doom, it got to the point where he could see nothing else. It filled all his mind.
Filmmakers are obliged to make the abstract concrete, and the ambiguous specific. Jackson decided to create the eyeball as a practical representation of the Eye of Sauron. It worked pretty well."
The Targaryen people living opposite have now painted the Targaryen arms on their outhouse wall, put up two decorative dragons on the wall, and fitted garden lights that are meant to resemble flaming torches. I'm now thinking of swords, armour, crossbows and a Lannister flag. If the garden centres are open I'm sure we can get a gold-painted lion to stand by the door.
Not a good idea. That will only wind them up and make them burn your place.
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That seems... excessive. On both sides, really.
MrKnickerbocker
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That was amazing!
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Thanks, dude! It's been a fun quarantine project.
Dragons don't do well with crossbows, really big ones.
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When my parents were reading the books when I was a kid I remember one of the books had a graphic on the cover of a stylised eye in a circle (?or ring?). I thought it was dead cool and was always trying to draw it, which I think they found a bit worrying
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This one?When my parents were reading the books when I was a kid I remember one of the books had a graphic on the cover of a stylised eye in a circle (?or ring?). I thought it was dead cool and was always trying to draw it, which I think they found a bit worrying
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I just realized that Jim Henson also died on this day. Wild.
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As you scream into the web of silence...
Also that cover was awesome. Really really great!
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That's right - the top oneThis one?
I read the series through the complete edition, which looked like this:
Both have similar eye designs.
btw the Boyfriend thinks Peter Jackson based the whole look of his films on a famous series of Tolkien illustrations by Alan Lee - of which I present a couple of examples:
That was a really enjoyable cover, @MrKnickerbocker. Happy Dio Day!
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Thank you, sir. Cheers!
When my parents were reading the books when I was a kid I remember one of the books had a graphic on the cover of a stylised eye in a circle (?or ring?). I thought it was dead cool and was always trying to draw it, which I think they found a bit worrying
I knew I'd seen a pre-Jackson design that featured the eye. It is based on original artwork by Tolkien.This one?
I read the series through the complete edition, which looked like this:
Both have similar eye designs.
Excellent stuff. It's obvious you had a blast with it, too.
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Thanks! Covering Dio is pointless unless you're having fun.