Why must it be 'Eye of Sauron' and not Head or Leg or Throne?  

mmm, I know the reasoning behind that it's because the author put it that way. My question was more like...why not others. Looks cooler. How his armies were amassing? Saruman has those crows, maybe he can too. Somehow the eye just looks a bit weird. :P Just my opinion.

No bad intention :D

Sauromon didn't have the crows on his own, they were actually allied with Mordor during the first war of the ring so really Sauron did indeed have use of crows as spies. Thus crows are bad luck in Middle earth, Raven's on the other hand have always been friends of Dwarves (irrelevant, but needed to flex my geek muscles).

Whoa, I didn't know about that seriously. I've always thought crows belonged to Saruman. :P But it does make sense that Sauron is the one owning them, not Saruman.

Thanks for the explanation. LOTR is indeed THE fantasy book since most of other fantasy book authors somehow 'refer' to LOTR. You can actually see there are some similar things here and there.

The Throne thing is just an idea which came to my mind. Hahhaha. I'm not an expert in LOTR stories, that's why i posted up this discussion.

Now that you've explained to me, it does make sense. I think the movie didn't really portray the all-seeing eye well. The tower part is ....weird. But the part where Sauron saw Frodo (when the latter wears the ring), is nicely done. That shows how powerful Sauron is. :D

At first I thought the tower was a little cheesy as well, but the more I thought about it the more I realized that really it was the only way to really portray it. How else can you portray a disembodied soul searching from his tower for a ring and keeping an eye on his troops? And in the books Sauron's keep was the tower Barad-dûr. Barad-dûr might be one of the two towers from which the book gets its name depending on who you ask.

Even Tolkien seems unsure of it since he has been quoted as saying the two towers are Minas Morgul and Orthanc and also in another instance as Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol. In the movies Peter Jackson took some liberties and implied the two towers were the alliance between Sauroman's Orthanc and Sauron's Barad-dur. Personally I think the towers of Minus Tirith and Barad-dur makes the most sense since those are the bases of the two opposing forces.

Sorry for the geekspaination, I tend to ramble on a bit too much when discussing Lord of the Rings. I've read them way too many times.

Whoa, you are indeed a true LOTR fan! Thanks for the heads up. Are those covered in the 3 LOTR books or it's from books such as The Hobbit? I'm a big fan of fantasy stuff. :D Inspired to create a world like those professionals did. Hahhaa. Just a dream anyway.

Yes that is all from the LoTR. If you liked LoTR I'd highly recommend The Hobbit, it gives alot of the backstory on Bilbo and the finding of the Ring.

I think the explanation before this is quite logical. The all seeing eye of sauron, to be able to observe the land under his control. Quite logical indeed. :D :D But the lighthouse-like tower in the movie is still a bit weird for me. Hahhaa

Yes the tower was quite the thing. I think that was just a show of power too though. The fire around it as well. All trying to promote the power idea.

Somehow I feel the place where the leader of the Nazghul resides looks more badass than Sauron's. I don't think those 2 are the same place right? One is Minas Tirith, the other...Mordor? =_= Can't seem to remember the names.

I never got the names right. My kids are always correcting me so I can't help. LOL

The Nazgul reside primarily in Minas Mogul which used to be Minas Illith the twin to Minas Tirith is the the city of the Men of Gondor, Minas Tirith used to be called Minas Anor.

Minas Illith was the Tower of the Moon, Minas Anor was the Tower of the Sun they were twin towers during Gondor's heights before Sauron perverted the nine rings of man making the ring bearers his ring wraiths. The Lord of Minas Illith was a bearer of one of the rings of Man and became the Witch King of Agmar or the Lord of the Nazgul and continues to reside in Minas Mogul (the Tower of Black Magic).

Sauron lives on Mount doom in the Black Tower. Not much description of the black tower exists in the books, but the volcano itself is part of Sauron's castle, so sure the black tower isn't all that forboding, but add to it an evil volcano and you have one hell of a lair of evil.

Ok thinking I need to lay off the LoTR's for a while I am too geeky for my own good.

O_O I think you deserve rank 1 for LOTR in myLot O_O

No kidding. Wow that was a lot of information!!

What can I say, I've read the series a few times.

I can not read the books. They are just not the style of writing I like to read. However I have really enjoyed the movies and the PC games (ya I know I'm a geek). I know the movies probably as good as the books.

The books are nice, but the level of English used is a little bit above my level. That's why the content does sound a little bit confusing from time to time. Hahhaa. Interesting information! We have one LOTR guru here. :)