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Originally Posted by The Mouth of Sauron
During the parley at Orthanc Gandalf offered Saruman a chance to rejoin the "good side" against Mordor. In fact Gandalf stated: "great service he could have rendered". But surely it would have been too risky to inform Saruman of Frodo's quest, even if Saruman appeared trustworthy?
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Dear Eru,
I reckon Saruman would have needed a GPS tracking bracelet to ensure Maia-supervision was adequate after he had the Palantir-detox period to stop the compulsions to get off with his scary new buddy, Sauron, 'on line' with 'just one more palantir chat'
Which is just another way of saying that once he crossed that line and started messing with men to make half orcs, he really was more like dear Morgoth, really, wasn't he.....slippery slide? Was in Tolkien's universe. I don't see many 'reformed' beings, and I don't see much in the way of 'shades of grey' or philosophising about the place of different races in a pantheon of living beings.
But perhaps Morgoth and Sauron were just 'misunderstood siblings' who mum and dad didn't quite rear right? Seriously--com on Eru! Pull your children into line a bit. I mean, it's not like Manwe and Mandos made 'only good decisions'. Truly, what did they think would come of binding Morgoth and locking him in chains FA, for Eru only knows how long because they thought that would 'fix' the problem. Yeah, I guess he would have been in a really good mood afterwards. And, did I see any of these discerning deep sighted god beings clueing up when they saw Morgoth rousing rebellion in Valinor. And oh of course, Feanor, the 'greatest' (tosser) ever born did a real good job of having a warm, subtle and humble personality. The Noldor might well have lived forever, but there was a horrible, no really prominent splash of narcissism in their vision of Arda, at times. Really? You entered Beleriand and displaced the Telerin stay-behinds, just 'because we could'.
OH MY God *scratches that out* I mean, Eru! Really? You Valar haven't got *any* other ideas about working with your colleague (scary and like an overgrown--actually--god-powered BRAT) Morgoth? Couldn't you have cordoned off the world, or made two or something, or sent the Orcs to Finishing School to learn better manners? They were living beings after all, and formerly Elves. Really? No-one gave a cahoot about them. At all. Except to imagine them as blots of nothingness?
Yours From the Twilight Zone
Iv