Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-36316824-20180816153158/@comment-96.4.180.37-20180816161032

Dude, I think you have just found Sauron's Eye. In The Fellowship of the Ring, while Frodo was at Rivendell, Tolkien mentions a red star in the South, growing brighter and brighter as the nights passed. Tolkien wouldn't mention such a minute detail unless it had some sort of connection to the story as a whole, even if that connection is not specifically revealed (which the red star was not). Sauron knew the Ring would be at Rivendell, as he probably had some sort of mental link with his Nazgûl, who attacked the party carrying the Ring on several occasions, one of which was at the ford right outside Rivendell, and so he would want to keep his Eye on Rivendell to try to guess his enemies' next move. Even if Barad-dûr has yet to be added, I would think that coding a pixel or two into the night sky background would not be to challenging. True, Sauron is more East than South of the Wold, but that's probably because Mevans did not want to add an algorithm to change the position of the "star" based on your direction from Barad-dûr, because that DOES sound incredibly challenging.