<P> Tolkien writes in The Silmarillion that "the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure" even before his body was lost in the War of the Last Alliance . </P> <P> In the draft text of the climactic moments of The Lord of the Rings, "the Eye" stands for Sauron's very person, with emotions and thoughts: </P> <P> The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him (Frodo), the Eye piercing all shadows...Its wrath blazed like a sudden flame and its fear was like a great black smoke, for it knew its deadly peril, the thread upon which hung its doom...(I) ts thought was now bent with all its overwhelming force upon the Mountain ..." </P> <P> Christopher Tolkien comments: "The passage is notable in showing the degree to which my father had come to identify the Eye of Barad - dûr with the mind and will of Sauron, so that he could speak of' its wrath, its fear, its thought' . In the second text...he shifted from' its' to' his' as he wrote out the passage anew ." </P>

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