The lighthouse of Mordor

[The Saucepan Man]

I can understand why people didn't like it. But I thought that the "roving Eye" worked well, as a film device, to convey the sense that Sauron was fixed upon the Battle at the Black Gate until the moment that Frodo claimed the Ring. <P>And there is a justification for this in the book:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were laid bare. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>As for the searchlight on the Plateau of Gorgoroth? Well, it should have been fixed on the forthcoming confrontation at the Black Gate, but it did make for a good dramatic moment.