Alan Sisto

No, that's terrible.

All right.

Go ahead.

All right.

They really are.

really are i mean he's just he's put himself in this awful situation because he's just so shallow and petty and he he doesn't want to be seen liking anything that gandalf likes and so because he's all doing it in secret oh now it's even worse because it's secret i'm gonna be i mean right dude it'd kind of be like if you have that one friend who thinks you know

But I can't tell them because I've made fun of them so much.

And I have to keep it totally secret.

If they find out, I'm going to be mocked not only for liking it, but for having hidden it.

It's just crazy.

So coming back to the beginning of the passage, Saruman sees Gandalf's own interest in the Shire and obviously decides it's worth a visit.

I mean, if this guy that I'm afraid of, who I know is more powerful than me and more influential than me,

interested in the Shire, maybe there's something that I need to be interested about, right?

So of course, because he's Saruman, he doesn't just go openly.

He goes in secret because everything he does is like two-faced.

It really is.

He's like, I don't know everything I need to know about this place.

Everything there is to know.

That's right.

Not because he was still interested, just because he was simply suspicious.