The Orthodox Church Has Stopped
A Giant 'Eye Of Sauron' Being Built Over Moscow
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The Russian
Orthodox Church has succeeded in shutting down a giant "Eye of
Sauron" installation on top of a Moscow tower intended to promote the
Hobbit movie trilogy.
The exhibit would
have featured a giant red eye as a symbol of Sauron, the evil lord of the
Middle Earth, on top of one of Moscow's new skyscrapers. It would have been
launched tonight as Moscow gets ready for the premiere of The
Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the latest movie of the saga
of the Ring.
The conservative
Orthodox church didn't like it one bit. The Russian state-funded broadcaster RT
writes that the church's spokesperson, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin,
took to Govorit Moskva radio to say that: "such a symbol
of triumphant evil rising above Moscow and becoming one of the tallest objects
in the city … is it good or bad? I am afraid it’s mostly bad. One shouldn’t be
surprised if something goes wrong with the city after that." He went on to
call the eye a symbol of Satan.
The piece of art
would have measured 1 metre in diameter and would have been put on the roof
of the “IQ-quarter” complex in Moscow
International Business Center "Moscow-City."
In the novel from
JRR Tolkien, the red eye symbolises the evil lord's wish to control everything,
an allusion that many critics link to state surveillance.
The installation,
designed by Russian art group "Svechenie" attracted quite a buzz on
Twitter:
After the condemn
from the Orthodox church, Sputnik news agency tweeted that the project was
cancelled:
More to follow.
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