Along with most of the other annual events here in Barga, Halloween has also been cancelled much to the dismay of the younger generation of Barghigiani but this evening a large visible sign that all was not lost for the lovers of things dark and sinister appeared in Barga.
Earlier in the day workmen arrived and installed a large coloured object on top of the four or 5 metres tree trunk – all that remains of the cedar tree chopped down in March 2019 which stands just outside the main gates of Barga Vecchia near to the Piazza della Vittoria
It wasn’t until darkness fell that the object which they had installed became clearly visible.
Halloween might be postponed but the all-seeing evil eye at the centre of JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novels, The Lord of the rings, could now be seen from right across the valley.
Throughout The Lord of the Rings, “the Eye” (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, according to Aragorn
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
Edward Lense, writing in Mythlore, identifies a figure from Celtic mythology, Balor of the Evil Eye, as a possible source for the Eye of Sauron. Balor’s evil eye, in the middle of his forehead, was able to overcome a whole army. He was king of the evil Fomoire, who like Sauron were evil spirits in hideously ugly bodies.
one moment only it stared out … as from some great window immeasurably high there stabbed northward a flame of red, the flicker of a piercing Eye … The Eye was not turned on them, it was gazing north … but Frodo at that dreadful glimpse fell as one stricken mortally
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