On this day in T.A. 3019, Saruman dispatches his ruthless Uruk-hai warriors to track down the Fellowship of the Ring in a bid to obtain the One Ring for himself.
On this day in T.A. 3019, Gandalf the Grey is separated from the Fellowship of the Ring and confronts the Balrog Durin’s Bane alone on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm.
On this day 20 years ago, Ian McKellen arrived in New Zealand and joined the cast on January 10, 2000 to begin filming Peter Jackson’s epic the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Thank you for all the magical and wonderful memories.
A strong place and wonderful was Isengard, and long it had been beautiful; and there great lords had dwelt, the wardens of Gondor upon the West, and wise men that watched the stars. But Saruman had slowly shaped it to his shifting purposes, and made it better, as he thought, being deceived–for all those arts and subtle devises for which he forsook his former wisdom, and which fondly he imagined were his own, came but from Mordor; so that what he made was naught, only a little copy, a child’s model or a slave’s flattery, of that vast fortress, armoury, prison, furnace of great power, Barad-dûr, the Dark Tower, which suffered no rival, and laughed at flattery, biding its time, secure in its pride and its immeasurable strength.
–J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, “The Road to Isengard”
- Saruman to Gandalf, The Two Towers, Book III, The Voice of Saruman (‘Saruman talking about the crowns of seven kings, and the rods of the Five Wizards’, requested by anonymous)
The White Hand of Saruman wasn’t actually any kind of insignia, he was just putting suncream on the Uruk Hai and forgot to rub it all in sometimes. This is why they can go out in the sun
“For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!’
I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.”
Lee Week continues! Saruman of Many Colors Been meaning to draw this one for a while
The other best scene in The Lord of the Rings is when Saruman reveals to Gandalf that
1.) he’s evil now 2.) he’s taking him prisoner 3.) that he had reinvented himself and, rather than simple white, was now wearing an iridescent holographic technicolor pastel rave coat of all the colors of the rainbow
which is, coincidentally, the only correct way to come out to your family
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