I don't think Saruman quite planned for Gandalf & Co. to come marching in on the heels of Ents. He was probably trying to communicate with Sauron, and telling the Big S. that everything was all right, and that no, there weren't any big, humanoid trees tearing his citadel apart. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
When Saruman "ran" out onto the balcony, he probably was so inwardly worked up that he forgot about Grima. Minions like him are usually forgotten about. Grima was probably hiding in the same room, and realized that Saruman was insulting him/Rohan. Thus, he seized the first thing that he saw, the palantir, and lobbed it out the window.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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