Video: Watch Sauronhenge happen and turn us all into Uruk-hai
The all-seeing eye of Sauron took its place above Brooklyn this week, and we were there to see it
Last week we introduced you all to the concept of Sauronhenge, the astrological phenomenon when the sun sets on top of the Brooklyn Tower in such a way that it looks like the Eye of Sauron sitting on top of Barad-dûr. Our contributor Kevin Clyne went to great lengths to predict when Sauronhenge would occur and where you could best see it, deploying tons of space math and LIDAR. It resulted in his prediction that the best time to catch the moment was 6:29 p.m. this past Tuesday, and as you can see in our video plenty of people came out to get a peek at it.
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We trust our contributors but it was still hard to know for sure if things would work out like Kevin predicted. A few dozen folks who were either Lord of the Rings fans or people just fascinated by evil-coded architecture showed up anyway, and they were all treated to exactly what Kevin promised: a chance to be enthralled by something that was beautiful and also ominous, and to see a notorious skyscraper in a whole new light.
It was a very cool moment, strangers gathered on an otherwise quiet and ripped-up street on the border of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill to see something they've never seen before. If it lacked the crowds of Manhattanhenge, well, it's only the first year of Sauronhenge and if we remember our Tolkien correctly, Mordor wasn't built in a day. See you out there next year.
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