Sauron - Allusions in Other Works

Allusions in Other Works

The Eye of Sauron is mentioned in The Stand, a post-apocalyptic novel written by Stephen King. The villain Randall Flagg possesses an astral body in the form of an "Eye" akin to the Lidless Eye. The novel itself was conceived by King as a "fantasy epic like The Lord of the Rings, only with an American setting".

The "Eye" is also used in The Dark Tower series (also inspired by The Lord of the Rings) as the "sigul" of the Crimson King, an analogous figure in King's mythos.

The Eye of Sauron appears as a visual reference in the Waking the Dead episode "Double Bind".

In S.M. Stirling's Emberverse series, the Eye of Sauron is the emblem of one of the new polities arising in the wake of the "Change".

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz repeatedly characterises Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo as "our Sauron". Multiple references appear throughout the novel.

In the Marvel Comics Universe, the supervillain Sauron, an enemy of the X-Men, names himself after the Tolkien character.

In Bernard Doove's Chakat Universe stories, "Sauron" is used to refer to a race of genetically engineered humans, created during the height of the Gene Wars of 2050–2090. They are walking biological weapon factories, capable of spreading lethal plagues that left victims sick for prolonged periods before finally dying. After the war, they were exempt from basic human rights, and could be killed by anyone without consequence. Over two centuries later, Sauron are nearly extinct (except for treatments that remove their disease-making function, at the cost of fertility), and the embarrassment of how they were treated and hunted down ensures that the truth is almost unbelievable.