Gandalf literally told Saruman: "the ring knows only one master and it isn't you, buddy" Saruman was attempting to usurp Sauron and thought he could get away with it. A delusion Sauron allowed him to cultivate because it made him short-term useful.
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Saruman is not mortal. Sauruman is stronger and arguably smarter than the other wizards.
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well he seemed to think so but it turns out not so much
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Whether a person is shown to be incorrect about something after the fact has zero bearing on whether they are smarter than somebody who was not. And he was the strongest, as I said, until Gandalf leveled up. Which the Valar arguably did for the purpose of dealing with Saruman.
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(Side note: I've really enjoyed this conversation, even when we didn't agree. I hope everyone else has too, and no one is suffering from nerd rage.)
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agree completely. nerding out makes me happy.
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so we have the most corrupting object in the entire world in the hands of entity that is provably susceptible to corruption.
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