Watch the two towers extended2/24/2023 ![]() When the White Council was formed around the year 2463 of the Third Age in order to counter Sauron, Saruman was appointed its leader, though Galadriel wanted Gandalf in this position. After one and a half millennia, Saruman returned to the west, just as Sauron's power was growing again in Dol Guldur. The White Messenger and the two Blue Wizards went into the east of Middle-earth. Saruman's jealousy of Gandalf grew from these events, perhaps because he feared that he would eventually supplant him as chief of the wizards. Even though Saruman was immediately considered the head of the order while Gandalf was not, Círdan had divined Gandalf as the wisest and greatest of the wizards. Saruman would later discover that Círdan had given Narya, the Red Ring, to Gandalf upon their first landing in Middle-earth. Only the keeper of the havens, Círdan the Shipwright, knew Saruman's identity and origin. The five wizards arrived separately at the Grey Havens in the west of Eriador around the year TA 1000. The arrival of the Istari in Middle-earth Curumo then was appointed overall leader of the group. ![]() The others who were chosen were Alatar and Pallando (the Blue Wizards). He also was charged to take Aiwendil (later called "Radagast") to please Yavanna, which Curumo did not wish to do, and this led to contempt for the latter Wizard. It was from this point that Curumo began to be jealous of Olórin, due to Varda's decision to send Olórin not as the third Istari, but as the second. Ĭurumo was one of those who volunteered, whereas the last one, Olórin, (later known as "Gandalf") was commanded by Manwë to go too. These should be "mighty, peers of Sauron, yet forgo might, and clothe themselves in flesh," as they were intended to help Men and Elves unite against Sauron, but the Wizards were forbidden from matching the Dark Lord in power and fear. It was decided to send five emissaries to Middle-earth. Though the Dark Lord was overthrown, he had not been effectively vanquished and his Shadow began to fall upon Middle-earth a second time. In Valinor, the land of the Valar, a council was called by Manwë, king of the Valar, shortly after Sauron's defeat by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. As Tarindor, Saruman was among the Five Guardians chosen to protect the newly-awakened Elves from the evils of Melkor and Sauron. Saruman was originally one of the powerful Maiar of Aulë the Smith named Curumo (later in Sindarin, Curunír). He is one of the few characters in The Lord of the Rings who is morally "grey" - being neither a fully-committed minion of the One Enemy nor an agent of good.ĭepiction of Saruman as the Maia Curumo, before leaving Valinor However, the oppressed Hobbits rallied against him and the overthrown Wizard was backstabbed by the mistreated Wormtongue and his houseless spirit was denied the West. As Sauron's two-faced vassal, Saruman pledged Isengard's nominal fealty to Mordor and assailed the Kingdom of Rohan in the War of the Ring, in which he was defeated.Īfter Sauron's downfall, Saruman journeyed to the Shire, dragging Gríma along, and imposed a terror regime with him as the petty thug-lord. He betrayed the White Council and his people and began serving Sauron. However, in time, the Wizard came to wish to share in the Dark Lord's power as the quasi-equal lieutenant by his side, or by claiming the One Ring first. He was the order's chief and the head of the White Council that opposed the Enemy. Saruman, also known as Saruman the White, was first of the Istari (Wizards), emissaries of the Valar who were sent to Middle-earth in the Third Age to help in countering the returned Sauron. Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel, perhaps, now that his wickedness has been laid bare, but very few others." - Aragorn II Elessar, The Two Towers, " Flotsam and Jetsam" There are not many in Middle-earth that I should say were safe, if they were left alone to talk with him, even now when he has suffered a defeat. The wise he could persuade, and the smaller folk he could daunt. ![]() His knowledge was deep, his thought was subtle, and his hands marvelously skilled and he had a power over the minds of others. Jackson (video games) " Once he was as great as his fame made him. ![]()
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