What exactly would a giant, flaming eye do with a ring anyway? It's not like he could put it on.

>>213334264 (OP)
What does it eat?

>>213334300
The real question is what was Sauron's Tax Policy?

>>213334264 (OP)
He has a physical body, it's just weak and vulnerable. You can see it in the gollum torture flashback.

>>213334264 (OP)
lol you didn't get lotr
that's likes
stupid

>>213334359
so where was the body? underneath the tower?

>>213334402
Just like Gotti.

>>213334264 (OP)
Peter Jackson’s a moron. The Eye of Sauron is largely metaphorical. Sauron can gaze over countless fathoms if someone uses the ring but there’s no literal giant flaming eye at the top of Barad Dur.

The pupil is actually a shadowy body standing still, didn't you see PJ's Hobbit movies?

>>213334556
didn't frodo literally see a giant flaming eye when he puts the ring on at amon hen

>>213334264 (OP)
He can return back to sauron, genius

>>213334966
But how? How does he wear the ring?

>>213335106
His cock

>>213335195
He's an eye, he doesn't have one.

>>213334556
>The Eye of Sauron is largely metaphorical
No it's not, it's right there.

>>213335436
>A great, brown eye.
>Lidless.

>>213334264 (OP)
Not die from having it destroyed

wasn't Sauron spending all his time with the palantir, reading every message the orcs were chatting about their picnics

>>213334330
the REAL question is what did they do to make sauron that mad

>>213334264 (OP)
It was a cock ring I dunno

>>213334556
Who cares?
The movies MOG the ever living shit out of the snorefest-of-a-book. The movies are the only actual worth here.

>>213337222
>liking the flick over the book
what is this, american hours?

>>213334556
Nah I'm sorry the eye was kino. Having your big bad in a fantasy movie be completely incorporeal would be lame as shit.

>>213334264 (OP)
He could take a human like body at any time so if he ever got the ring he'd incarnate in human form again and put it on

There was even a deleted scene in RotK with him in a physical form fighting Aragorn, but they cut it.

>>213337162
Sauron wasn't actually mad at all, he was just doing what made him happy, take over Arda.

>>213334359
>You can see it in the gollum torture flashback.
???

>>213337184
wtf sauron is black??

>>213334556
there was literally a big folaming eye scanning for Frodo and the ring when he entered mordor

>>213337432
Why didn't he just look for the ring himself?

>>213334556
it looks badass tho you faggot

>>213337432
He can't take human form
>>213338250
He can take only dreadful forms
Everyone will know it's him

>>213334264 (OP)
the eye is metaphorical

>>213337350
>i love stopping the story for a long 5 page explanation about this small house with an extended family tree i am about to describe
Lol no. Moby Dick will be the only book that can pull something like that off. This shit will always be shit, and the movies are far better keeping the pacing tight.

>>213334556
Its largely allegorical, like the Holy and the propane.

>>213338577
>stopping the story for a long 5 page explanation about this small house with an extended family tree i am about to describe
this doesn't happen

>>213334330
No taxes because you don't get a wage.

>>213334556
>metaphorical

>>213334556
Far off the shadows of Sauron hung; but torn by some gust of wind out of the world, or else moved by some great disquiet within, the mantling clouds swirled, and for a moment drew aside; and then he saw, rising black, blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dûr. One moment only it stared out, but as from some great window immeasurably high there stabbed northward a flame of red, the flicker of a piercing Eye; and then the shadows were furled again and the terrible vision was removed.

I like the giant flaming eye.

>>213339376
lol did sauron place the giant eye above the clouds? What a fucking idiot

>>213339680
he also put his hand above your mother's thigh

>>213339405
You've been hopelessly corrupted, anon.

>>213334264 (OP)
>Be evil version of Gandalf
>Even without a physical form still mog every other character in the series
What did Ilúvatar mean by this?

>>213334264 (OP)
sauron would just put tariffs on gondor along with his ally sauronman

>>213340548
>>Be evil version of Gandalf
Gandalf was no way on the same level as Sau
He was also nerfed hard after moving to Middle Earth

>>213340548
Sauron has morgoth powers passed into him

>>213334264 (OP)
In the books he had a physical form, but PJ for some reason thought to change it for the movies - where's he's explicitly stated to be lack one. Why did he think it was a good idea, I don't know

>>213334556
It looks cool.

>>213340670
It wasn't a bad idea
Besides that we saw his form at the beginning of the fellowship it was enough

>>213340670
It makes his ring seem more integral to his strength if he can't take form without it. Otherwise you would have to ask why he doesn't just march out again like he did in the prologue. It also seems harder to kill him if he has no body and makes destroying the ring more intuitive as a solution to the audience. Probably the best direction for an adaptation.

>>213338593
I remember one time I was riding home with a friend, and he put on the lotr audiobook for fellowship. His dad who was a sorta hippie type guitar player in the 70s was driving us, and one of the really gay songs came on, I think after the balrog part, and the guy starts singing it, ant it’s really corny as fuck. Anyway his dad just turned the radio off and was like, “yea I can’t listen to this pick a fucking cd or something wtf is wrong with you.” Gave me a good laugh to remember that.

>>213340656
No, Sauron has no extra power from Morgoth. But the Ring allows him to keep his power when magic across Middle-Earth gets less and less powerful.

>>213334264 (OP)
You retards are aware the eye is just a projection of his power, right?

>>213340878
>why he doesn't just march
not even Morgoth was so stupid
he went out once and got crippled by a faggy elf

iirc he's still too weak to take physical form after his previous defeat since most of his power is in the ring

>>213334736
That's because Amon Hen is magical and Sauron was just coincidentally looking that way.

>>213340918
Sauron did have Morgoth Mojo when he had the ring. The ring is made of gold, which contains the lion's share or Morgoth's corruption from when he marred the world.

>>213341018
He was able to take physical form but he dared not leave Barad Dur until he regained his ring. Also, it was just the most convenient place for him to be since he could coordinate every assault from there.

>>213340897
>'the books are totally shit'
>the extent of my experience with the books is 5 minutes of an audiobook on the car radio

you're retarded

>>213334556
I liked the movies
the book wasn't as good

>>213341389
No fucking IDIOT. I read the hobbit which I liked, and I read the first one and probably half of the second before I got bored. STUPID! I was just remembering a funny thing FAGGOT!

>>213340931
why doesn't he project a giant hand to find the ring with

>>213341583
Pleb.

>>213342575
He would need to project a giant brain to think of that first

>>213339376
That's describing his actual eye looking out from the tower, there's nothing suggesting it's a gigantic eye. A scene like this is all you needed to depict Sauron.

>>213343405
How would he know to do that?

>>213334264 (OP)
Sister just flashed me her brown eye.

Not a single door in the whole place.

>>213344074
It's nice that you go to church.

>>213334736
He perceives a giant flaming eye because that is the spiritual form Sauron manifests because he is a paranoid maniac by this point in time. Sauron actually sucks. He is a brilliant politician, artist, builder, intelligence agent and logistician. Those are his divine strengths according to his nature and alignment. He absolutely is terrible at fighting, strategy, and pretty much everything to do with conflict. He absolutely worshiped Melkor because the pair completed and complemented each other's strengths.

By this time in history, Sauron has been defeated and humiliated time and time again. If this was an RTS game, Sauron is an absolutely newb who has maxed out his unit count and economy but knows in his heart he cannot micromanage his units in combat worth shit and is terrified to engage in any conclusive battle, especially knowing his opponent has a decisive game-ending superweapon they captured from him. His spiritual being manifests as a giant eye to others because he is absolutely paranoid, consumed with inner turmoil and is trying desperately to see a path to victory or his potential defeat coming. It isn't an image of projected strength, but rather Sauron knows the Developer Himself, is fucking around with the game's code to ensure Sauron loses no matter what he does.

>>213334556
I actually think the giant tower with the flaming eye was a cool addition, don't care if its supported by the books or not.

>>213344204
Why would a floating eye need doors?

>>213334556
wrong

>>213344204
>called More Door
>wonders why it needs more doors

>>213338250
Unlike Gandalf he learned to delegate

To me, the most disappointing part of the story are the other rings. The Elves just have theirs, can't wear them, but still have perfectly defended realms due to them. The Dwarven Kingdoms were destroyed by theirs and we don't get to see any of it. The nine Humans are also destroyed and not seen, then the Kings are just turned into lowly mooks? Sure they can't die, but they're also incompetent. Even 9v1 they get btfo'd easily. They should have wizardly powers rivaling Gandalf when all together and commanding hordes of undead creatures. Sauron could have spread them out to attack many parts of Middle Earth all at once and it would have made sense why no one could muster a large army to defend against him. They had to inflate the Witch King's powers in the final chapter to pretend he's any threat whatsoever

>>213345727
To not explode, I guess.