(Newswire.net — December 9, 2014) — Moscow, Russia — The ‘Eye of Sauron’ will light up the skyline of Moscow-City to ominously watch down on the Russian capital as the latest “Hobbit” movie premiers in Russia on Thursday night.
According to The Hollywood Reporter Russia, the creators from a Russian art-group ‘Svechenie’, fans of the British fiction novelist J. R. R. Tolkien, will re-create the Eye of the Dark Lord Sauron from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy as a tribute to the great saga.
In the Lord of the Rings saga, the eye of the Sauron is located in the center of Mordore, the middle earth capital. The fire blazed eye of the ultimate evil replica should toss light beams across the Moscow skyline at Wednesday night, one day before the premier of a newest addition of ‘Lords of the Ring’ sequel ‘The Hobbit – The Battle Of The Five armies’.
The artists from ‘Svechenie’ said that the installation of a real life Eye of the Dark Lord of Mordor will “let millions of fans visit Middle-earth”, referring to Moscow.
The light installation of the perilous Eye will not be installed on the tallest building in Moscow, ‘the Federation Complex’, however, it will be set up on the roof of the ‘IQ-quarter’ complex at the Gals-development company in Moscow International Business Center ‘Moscow-City’, which is still under construction. The complex started in 2012 and officials say it will be finished in 2015.
Officials stated that the ‘IQ-quarter’ will be the transfer point between different subway and light railway lines, as well as other public systems.
In Tolkien’s saga the lidless Eye was the symbol of power and fear though which the Dark Lord Sauron was able to exert his will over Middle-earth. It was stationed atop the Barad-dûr tower, the fortress from which Sauron watched over the world. The All Seeing Eye is an allusion to mass surveillance and control.
While the fans can hardly wait for the installation to cast lights across the Moscow, oponents say that the installation would shade the wrong kind of light due to a neo-cold-war era, as the Russian president Mr. Putin could be described in western media as ‘the Sauron’ himself.