Saruman: The Angel Who Chose to Fall | Silmarillion Explained
Who was Saruman before he betrayed the Free Peoples of Middle-earth? Long before the white robes and the voice of enchantment, he was Curumo -- a divine spirit of craft sent from Valinor as chief of the Istari to protect Middle-earth from Sauron. This Tolkien deep dive traces the full arc of Saruman's fall, from jealous Maia to ring-maker, from head of the White Council to "Sharkey," a petty tyrant mocked by his own orcs.We examine how scholarly study of the Enemy became imitation, how Gandalf's offered mercy was refused at Orthanc and again in the Shire, and what Saruman's dissolution into…
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