Exercises in sophistication.
So what do we have? A group of technically gifted comrades planned to make a high-tech artistic installation in the form of an eye of a fictional character. The fact that the character is fictional is known with a 100% probability. Another group of comrades, who believed in another character (whose reality is in doubt), vehemently protested the initiative of technically gifted comrades, because this initiative allegedly insults their religious feelings towards another character.
The paradox.
It turns out that:
The believing comrades recognize the reality of the fictional character.
The character of Tolkien and the character of the Bible are somehow connected, but they hide it from us.
The authorities do not sympathize with a group of technically gifted comrades, but with a group of people who recognize the reality of fictional characters.

Thus, in a cruel and barbaric way, the capital of Mordor was stripped of the point of Sauron.
And sorry...