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Saruman, also called Saruman the White, later Saruman of Many Colours, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. He is the leader of the Istari , wizards sent to Middle-earth in human form by the godlike Valar to challenge Sauron , the main antagonist of the novel.
[T 21] [T 4] With the One Ring, Sauron soon dominated the Númenóreans, [T 21] undermining Númenor's religion, and inciting the island to worship Melkor with human sacrifice. [T 4] [T 6] Sauron convinced Ar-Pharazôn to attack Aman by sea to steal immortality from the Valar. [T 4] [T 14] The Valar appealed to Eru, [T 4] who destroyed Númenor ...
Rather, their hearts and minds are corrupted by power and evil impulses, while they retain the physical appearance of men. Prolonged service to Sauron however, does turn the bearers of the Rings of Power from Men into the wraith-like Nazgûl. Those men who are the servants of Morgoth or Sauron are mostly from the east and south of Middle-earth. [7]
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Saruman was chosen instead, as the most knowledgeable about Sauron's work in the Second Age. [T 4] [T 1] Gandalf returned to Dol Guldur "at great peril" and learned that the Necromancer was indeed Sauron. The following year a White Council was held, and Gandalf urged that Sauron be driven out.
Saruman's case shows, she writes, that "pride and the lust for power", [5] as he strives to get the Ring and to be powerful like Sauron, are enough to destroy him even though he never gets the Ring. When Gandalf comes to the ruins of Isengard to meet Saruman, and offers him freedom in place of slavery to Sauron, Saruman is too thoroughly ...
Certain things about The Stranger pointed toward this theory; in Episode One, his flaming crater looked an awful lot like the Eye of Sauron, and on two separate occasions, he inadvertently harmed ...
[4] [8] [9] Robert Plank adds that Tolkien could have chosen as a pattern any number of other returning heroes. [8] This theme, of a last obstacle to the heroic homecoming, was paradoxically both long-planned (certainly back to the time of writing of the Lothlorien chapter) and, in the person of Saruman-as-Sharkey, "a very late entry". [4]