The Tolkien Series - Sauron's Eye Traditional Cache
caccbag: Due to my absence, I will have to let this one go. Too bad, but the lid was really part of the cache's uniqueness.
The Tolkien Series - Sauron's Eye
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"The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, 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... its thought was now bent with all its overwhelming force upon the Mountain..."
Throughout The Lord of the Rings, "the Eye" (the Red Eye, the Evil Eye, the Lidless 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 (a notable exception to this rule was his emissary, the Mouth of Sauron). Also, the Lord of the Nazgûl threatened Éowyn with torture before the "Lidless Eye" at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
In the Mirror of Galadriel, Frodo had an actual vision of this Eye:
"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.
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Later, Tolkien writes as if Frodo and Sam really glimpse the Eye directly, not in any kind of vision. The mists surrounding Barad-dûr are briefly withdrawn, and:
"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."
This is a simple cache in the Tolkien series. You must be careful of the orcs and trolls around - they are known to spy on cachers and plunder known caches. Being Sauron's Eye it is appropriately placed next to the famous chocolate factory: See's.
It is magnetic (on one end despite magnets on both ends - so replace so that magnets do hold it).
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