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Lyta_Underhill · 12-24-2004, 10:44 PM

Certainly Gandalf had a well-known love for pipeweed; however, the irony in this is that Saruman also loves the pipeweed, but he loves it in secret and imports it from the Shire in great quantities, as moviegoers will see in the TTT Extended version when Merry and Pippin find a store of it at Isengard after the Drowning of the place. The harmless vice that Gandalf practices in the open is imitated in a secretive way by the very wizard wot makes fun of him for it! What amusing duplicity and hypocrisy! Saruman spent all his time imitating Gandalf and then ridiculing Gandalf's practices. It sounds like he had a real complex, that one!

Cheers!
Lyta

12-24-2004, 10:44 PM	#5
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	Pot Kettle Black Certainly Gandalf had a well-known love for pipeweed; however, the irony in this is that Saruman also loves the pipeweed, but he loves it in secret and imports it from the Shire in great quantities, as moviegoers will see in the TTT Extended version when Merry and Pippin find a store of it at Isengard after the Drowning of the place. The harmless vice that Gandalf practices in the open is imitated in a secretive way by the very wizard wot makes fun of him for it! What amusing duplicity and hypocrisy! Saruman spent all his time imitating Gandalf and then ridiculing Gandalf's practices. It sounds like he had a real complex, that one! Cheers! Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”