I think it would be cool if Saruman does to Grima, what he does in the Scouring of the Shire. It has been rumoured that it will be revealed in the extended version of TTT that Wormtongue had killed Theodred with some kind of poison spike thing. What if Theoden says to Wormtongue at the Orthanc, "you were not responsible for what you did, I forgive you, etc. You do not have to stay with Saruman, etc." And then Saruman's eyes light up and he reveals that Grima killed Theodred. Grima flies into a rage and does the deed, whether it be by pushing or stabbing Saruman.<P>I would love this because although we aren't getting a Scouring of the Shire, Saruman's end would be strangly familiar to book readers...
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"A new character has come on the scene (I am sure I did not invent him, I did not even want him, though I like him, but there he came walking into the woods of Ithilien): Faramir, the brother of Boromir..." J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters No. 66
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