Saruman was close to forging a ring MORE POWERFUL than Sauron's

Saruman was close to forging a ring MORE POWERFUL than Sauron's "He wore a ring on his finger." One sentence in The Lord of the Rings that the films skip entirely — and it rewrites Saruman's entire betrayal. He wasn't a servant who sold out to Sauron. He was a craftsman building his own Great Ring to replace him. In this Lord of the Rings lore breakdown: why Saruman called himself "Ring-maker" at Orthanc, the centuries-old jealousy of Gandalf that started it all, what Saruman hid from the White Council for decades, why Tolkien named the war The Two Towers as rival powers rather than allies, and what Saruman's endgame actually was according to Tolkien's own Foreword. Sauron and Saruman came from the same divine lineage of craft. Both believed the world could be ordered through sufficient skill and force. Tolkien wrote the story of one Maia who studied his enemy so completely that he became him. 📖 Source: The Fellowship of the Ring — J.R.R. Tolkien | Unfinished Tales | Foreword to The Lord of the Rings 🔔 Subscribe for Tolkien lore, LOTR book vs movie breakdowns, and deep dives into Middle-earth's hidden history. --- #LordOfTheRings #Tolkien #LOTR #Saruman #Gandalf #TolkienLore #MiddleEarth #Isengard #TolkienExplained #BookVsMovie ---