Sauron lost the Ring in battle thousands of years before the beginning of the story, and it is now held in secret in the Shire by the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, who passes it on to Frodo Baggins, one of the story's main protagonists. The Lord of the Rings describes a quest to destroy the One Ring, a powerful and evil talisman created by the Dark Lord Sauron to control Middle-earth. The name Saruman ( pronounced ) means "man of skill or cunning" in the Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon he serves as an example of technology and modernity being overthrown by forces more in tune with nature.Īppearances The Lord of the Rings Saruman is one of several characters in the book illustrating the corruption of power his desire for knowledge and order leads to his fall, and he rejects the chance of redemption when it is offered.
His earlier history is briefly given in the posthumously published The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.
His schemes feature prominently in the second volume, The Two Towers, and at the end of the third volume, The Return of the King. He is 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, but eventually he desires Sauron's power for himself and tries to take over Middle-earth by force from his base at Isengard. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. Saruman the White is a fictional character of J.
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