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How do you all see...

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Sniper, Jun 6, 2001.

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    How do you people, yes you people that are able to reply to these boards because you've registered percieve Sauron as? I mean, how do you picture him?

    As for me, he has always been this red eye thingy that sends out a beam from this dark tower surveying the land. I know its not an actual picture, but thats how i've always pictured him.

    Question is, is how do YOU picture him?
     
    Sniper, Jun 6, 2001
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    Well, I've always wondered what the other eye looks like. And is his eye really lidless? Because if it is, I can really understand why it is so red.
    To the question: I see him dressed in black with a cowl shadowing his facial features. The stereotypical evil mage in other words.
    By the way, does he really have only one eye? It's been a very long time since I read the books.

    Azardu
     
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    Just a large fellow in a big robe/large cape. He's got a hood over his head, and the only thing visible is those red eyes. What is Sauron, by the way? He is a servant of Melkor from way back I know.
     
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    [​IMG] I've always pictured kind of pictured a half man/half demon kind of thing...A cross between man and a Balrog. Horns, tail, dark, twisted, and evil. That's my guess...
     
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    Sauron in my mind is simply a shadow. A silhouette without feature. More of a shapeless power than a person with form or substance. And the Red Eye is more of a symbol than a attribute. I'm a little put out that they show sauron as a 'man' in the LotR trailer. According to the book he lost his 'real' body when Numonor (SP?) was destoryed. Thus he didn't really have a 'hand' or fingure to have the ring cut off at the end of the second age.

    What is your take on this?

    [This message has been edited by Voltric (edited June 06, 2001).]
     
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    [​IMG] I'll buy that...Hell of a lot better than my image
     
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    i always pictured him as nothingness really, similiar to voltric, just darkness in the purest form, i cant really describe this since it is impossible to BE darkness but i suppose thats about all i can say. Somehow i always also pictured him with a blood red robe with dark black insignias of evil such as spiked whips and such... although this refutes the whole darkness thing since something non-existant cant wear a robe.... i guess i dont really have a visual... i should go read the books again and get more info from them... im gonna read them now...
     
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    A large shadow... well spirit more I guess. Always pictured it when he was searching for Frodo as this massive shapeless spirit hovering over his mountain, taking on more shape and form as it gathers up into a huge unblinking red eye, with eerie red flames flaring outwards.
     
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