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Throughout The Lord of the Rings, "the Eye" (known by other names, including the Red Eye, the Evil Eye, the Lidless Eye, the Great Eye) is the image most often associated with Sauron. Sauron's Orcs bore the symbol of the Eye on their helmets and shields, and referred to him as the "Eye" because he did not allow his name to be written or spoken ...
The Eye of Sauron is the image most often associated with Sauron in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.. Eye of Sauron or Sauron's Eye may also refer to: . M 1-42, "Eye of Sauron" nebula, a planetary nebula with an eye-like appearance, nicknamed due to the similarity with the theatrical eye.
NGC 4151 is an intermediate spiral Seyfert galaxy with weak inner ring structure located 15.8 megaparsecs (52 million light-years) from Earth [4] in the constellation Canes Venatici.
The nickname "Eye of Sauron" has been given to multiple eye-like objects, namely the planetary nebulae M 1-42 [6] [7] and Helix Nebula, [8] [9] the star system HR 4796A, [10] [11] and the intermediate spiral Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151. [12] The Mars-crossing asteroid 378214 Sauron was discovered in 2007. [13]
The army of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men advanced on Mordor; in a great battle on the Dagorlad ("Battle Plain"), Sauron's forces were destroyed and the Black Gate was stormed. Barad-dûr was then besieged; after seven years, Sauron broke out and was defeated on the slopes of Orodruin. Sauron fled into Rhûn, and Barad-dûr was levelled.
Saurona is named after the fictional Sauron, the villain from Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.Tolkien described Sauron's all-seeing eye as follows: “The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat’s, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing.”
Like in the novels the corporeal presence of Sauron had largely been limited to a single searching eye, Sauroniops is only known from a single bone above the eye socket. The specific name is derived from Greek παχύς, pachys , "thick", and θόλος, tholos , "round building with conical roof", in reference to the thick vaulted skull roof.
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