Alan Sisto
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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If there's going to be a victory for Saruman, it has to include him getting the ring.
Otherwise he is toast.
And, and of course he, he actually has a hope that he can still do that, which once again, just goes to show how totally diluted he is.
And then in the part we skipped, he concludes, hey, you know what?
Actually, it's sort of like, oh, wow, I was smarter than I thought, you know, because I sent the Nazgul up to the Shire and all those Rangers are waiting there.
And maybe we can whittle the number of the nine down.
Maybe we can get them down to like five or six.
Obviously, we saw what happened to the Rangers, but I kind of like Saruman's optimism here.
That's a very good question.
And I don't think there's a specific answer.
speculation comes from a passage in the writers of Rohan.
The three hunters encounter Aemir.
This is after Aragorn has revealed he is Aragorn.
And Aemir asks, "'Tell me, Lord,' he said, "'what brings you here?