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The appearances of Sauron as either a person or as the massive eye on top of the tower of Barad-dûr were largely inventions of the movie. Sauron never appears directly in the Lord of the Rings novels, and as most of his dealings occur indirectly via his underlings, descriptions of what he looks like remain very vague; at one point, Gollum, who was tortured by Sauron, mentions that he has four fingers on a black hand, suggesting that he has a physical body. In 'The Silmarillion', Sauron is described as a shape-changer who has appeared as various animals over the ages, and once even with fair Elvish features, but author J.R.R. Tolkien described his final years as "a man of more than human stature, [...] an image of malice and hatred made visible", who apparently gave off intense heat and had "dreadful presence [and] daunting eyes". Sauron's depiction as a heavy armor-clad giant in the movie's prologue was mostly based on descriptions of Morgoth, the first Dark Lord of Middle-earth (and Sauron's former superior), who was defeated at the end of the First Age. The movies' eye on the tower may have been inspired by Tolkien's many references to the "Eye of Sauron", although many have interpreted this metaphorically, as Sauron's watchful presence rather than a physical manifestation. Sir Peter Jackson later admitted that he may have misread this particular element.

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