2027's The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum will chiefly be Gollum's story, but Sauron keeps his spot as the franchise's villain. In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books , Sauron remains almost entirely unseen and largely undescribed, merely a dark presence calling the shots from his Mordor tower of Barad-dûr. While there are references to a watchful "eye" (as there is a "mouth"), the term is mostly figurative, used to describe Sauron's apparent omniscience over Middle-earth.

Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movies transformed Sauron into a physical presence by making the Eye of Sauron a literal thing sitting atop Barad-dûr. The giant flaming oculus served as the trilogy's representation of Sauron, and while the change proved somewhat controversial, it mad

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