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Saruman was already rotted by lust for the ring when he began to use the Palantir and then came into the presence of a dominating and corrupting will. So yeah.

Saruman was already rotted by lust for the ring when he began to use the Palantir and then came into the presence of a dominating and corrupting will. So yeah... plenty of real world versions of that.

usrnm 4mo ago
Do you have a citation for that? I read the books a long time ago, but I was sure that he was corrupted through the palantir