What what WHAT?!

Okay, a bit of a melodramatic title. Still... gets the job done 😄

I read an interview with PJ a few years back and he said something along the lines of "We can't keep Sauron as just a fiery eye". This was AFTER FOTR, by the way. So what gives? Why didn't we see Sauron in all his horrific glory?

because in the books he doens't have a body yet.........wasn't he just an eye? why can't i remember?!?! grr, help 😛

he was JUST AN EYE for freaking sake, ,he didn't have his body back yet, so i dont know what the fuss is all about.

JUST an eye??? that was one powerful eye, and i think they were going to have sauron appear but there was an outcry against it,

i wonder if it hurt when a bird flew into his eye, or if he could be defeated by a GIANT can of mace

yeah yeah but an eye all together.
NOwhere in the book did sauron appear physically. and if PJ had put him in then would have been going wayyyyyyyyyyyy too far with the movie/book changing plots.

No, he was not JUST an eye. He wasnt an eye after all, at least not physically - eye is just another name for him because through the Palantír, he can see everything. I rather thought of Sauron as staying inside his tower looking through the Seeing Stone... not some stupid searchlight. This was quite crazy, I mean, he was supposed to see EVERYTHING, not just some metres he was looking at... he only couldnt think of everything he saw the same time, that's why he didnt notice Frodo and Sam though he probably did see them.

ive said before the flashlight eye thing was to show that sauron was looking RIGHT at frodo, RIGHT EXACTLY ON HIM and yoiu cant just change that for one minute of a movie, big flaming eyes have a tendency of not changing

I think that PJ was talking about how they had to show Sauron in his horrific form in the prologue so everyone knows that he's just not a fiery eye.

I loved how he looked in the prologue... 😍 awww his armour is really cool.

i like the sound of his boots as he walks, or the shadow of him looking down on the men, and when his head just appears at the corner of the screen

Pimpin' helmet of his

exactly, i would love to see him in that armour but in like a tophat

Sir Ian McKellen's pimpin' hat?

Fair points, guys. I'm just repeating what PJ said, just to remind y'all. But we saw the witchking in FOTR... why not Sauron in the prologue?

we did see sauron in the prologue

I meant his face...

Originally posted by Ahnold
Fair points, guys. I'm just repeating what PJ said, just to remind y'all. But we saw the witchking in FOTR... why not Sauron in the prologue?

Sauron he means that he was just saying that since the Witch King was in FotR, why not Sauron, so they put Sauron in. And since we only see the all powerful Witch King in his greatest glory in the 3rd film so yeah....

Originally posted by Ahnold
I meant his face...

We can't see his face, because no one knows what Sauron looks like underneath armor.

That's cos no one bothered to show us his face, isn't it... And I actually meant that in FOTR, we see the witchking's FACE {when Frodo slips on the ring}, so why not Sauron's FACE?

Originally posted by Ahnold
That's cos no one bothered to show us his face, isn't it... And I actually meant that in FOTR, we see the witchking's FACE {when Frodo slips on the ring}, so why not Sauron's FACE?

Again no one knows what Sauron's face looks like you see. tolkien never really gave us that certain picture.