Plans for a skyscraper art installation inspired by JRR Tolkien’s "Eye of Sauron" to open in Moscow tomorrow night have angered the Russian Orthodox Church. The church is concerned that evil will fall upon the city because they see the evil eye as a "demonic symbol."
The art group Svechenie wants to attach a one-meter-long glowing sphere to the top of a 21-story building and project a 3D light show from it in celebration of Friday’s release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
Plans for a skyscraper art installation inspired by JRR Tolkien’s "Eye of Sauron" to open in Moscow tomorrow night have angered the Russian Orthodox Church. The church is concerned that evil will fall upon the city because they see the evil eye as a "demonic symbol."
"Such a symbol of the triumph of evil is rising up over the city, becoming practically the highest object in the city," the church’s head of public affairs Vsevold Chaplin told Govorit Moskva radio station.