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Saruman's final appearance is at the end of Book VI, after Sauron's defeat, in the chapter The Scouring of the Shire. He persuades the Ents to release him from Orthanc and travels on foot as a beggar to the hobbit's homeland of the Shire. There he engineers its takeover by bands of men, forcing its rural economy through a seemingly willfully destructive sort of Industrial Revolution. Under the leadership of Frodo and his companions, the Hobbits rebel, and defeat the incomers. Saruman is set free again, but is murdered by his much-abused servant Gríma Wormtongue.[6]
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Saruman is all about the strings. Where nearly every metal band’s intention falls flat on its face by using keyboards that synthesize acoustic instruments, Saruman uses the real deal. Loads of violin, cello and some acoustic guitar come in to play on this record. And here’s the best part of that: again, whereas most metal bands that even attempt to introduce something as "exotic" as a cello into their album will do so in the form of some kind of interlude, Saurman’s strings play side-by-side with the electric rhythm guitar. No turn off the amps, play the violin, stop the violin and turn the amps back on again here.
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A good wizard gone bad, Saruman has remade himself as an avid breeder of orcs, a cohort of the evil Sauron and a world-dominating tyrant in the making. Known for his long white locks, beetle brows and a wizard staff he uses to support his doddering frame. Not to be confused with Gandalf the White.
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With Gandalf out of the way, Saruman hoped to be able to find the Ring-bearer. Saruman had many agents travelling between Isengard and the Shire, stocking up on provisions in preparation for war. He sent the most trusted of these - a squint-eyed Southerner - to report on any Hobbits who left the Shire. But before Saruman's agent could report back, Gandalf escaped. He was rescued from the top of Orthanc on September 18 by Gwaihir the Windlord, who had come bringing news at the request of Radagast not knowing that Gandalf was being held prisoner.
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Encouraged by his masters approval of his works, Saruman started work on bigger things. He gathered the most evil souls he could find; his former friend Josef Mengele, Jack the Ripper, Henry VIII, Bill Gates, and the guy who invented the teletubbies. He had created N'Sync. With the world at its knees, Saruman was granted life by God, in return for the death of N'Sync. He immediatly set out to find and kill his older brother.
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In Peter Jackson's film trilogy, Saruman was played by Christopher Lee. In the films, Saruman is portrayed as acting as Sauron's servant, downplaying the idea that Saruman was independently seeking the Ring. Jackson's films do not include the title "Saruman of Many Colours", referring to him only as "Saruman the White". The film trilogy ... did not include the Scouring of the Shire, but the extended DVD version does depict Saruman being killed by Gríma Wormtongue in Isengard, after his encounter with Gandalf and Théoden. In the film, Gríma stabs Saruman in the back rather than cutting his throat (allegedly to appease the censors) causing him to fall on a spiked wheel below the tower of Orthanc.
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