Alan Sisto

Saruman, Saruman, Saruman.

Oh my gosh, I'm just seeing a Zoom meeting now with all of the Astari and Saruman just like totally downplaying anything that Gandalf comes up with.

Rolling his eyes every time Gandalf speaks.

Yeah, he's obsessed, right?

That's an old song.

It's also a restraining order waiting to happen, frankly.

It is.

So thanks to Saruman's paranoia and secret obsession with the target of his jealousy, he learns about the hobbits in the Shire.

And interestingly, of course, it's a place he would have otherwise ignored.

I'm

I'm too wizardy for this Shire.

I'm too important for these little people.

Clearly, his sense of superiority, a false sense, I might add, would have kept him from ever even having an interest in it.

Gandalf simply had a love for the little people.

Yeah.

He's always liked the underdog, so to speak, you know, and who wouldn't love the hobbits really?

I mean, I've, I've always, that question we ask people in the North wing, where would you, I would live in the Shire.

I would 100% live in a hobbit hole, hang out with these little guys, eat five times a day, you know, fantastic.

But of course, during the conversation, Saruman is said to have smiled.

And it's sort of, you can see it, right?