saruman

If I recall correctly, Peter Jackson asked Christopher Lee to utter Saruman's loud death-scream after Saruman had been stabbed in the back.

Although Saruman was probably the role he was born for; apparently Sir Christopher read LoTR every year and understood Quenya.

There's the story of filming the scene in Lord of the Rings where Saruman is stabbed in the back by Wormtongue.

One nit-pick: The Peter Jackson film shows Saruman stabbed by Wormtongue before falling to his death from the top of Orthanc.

And Saruman was better at making orcs than Sauron, so again not so impressive.

One very brief scene in the movie is Saruman speaking to the wild-men, telling them how the Rohan came and took their lands from them and that's why they should fight for him.

I just learned that palantir is the seeing stone used by Saruman from Lord of the Rings.

Keep in mind that I do not especially regard anyone, Saruman included, as an agent for progressivism.

And that vision Sam sees in Galardiela's mirror is actually true - in the book, Shire WAS burning in the end, because Saruman almost destroyed it.

A wind out of the West blows away the smoke cloud that appears when Barad-Dur crumbles (and the smaller smoke cloud that appears when Saruman is killed).

Of course, Lee made a career of playing villains and monsters, so I find it completely unsurprising that he was cast as Saruman instead.

We know that Saruman easily overcame Gandalf.

There is a chapter in The Two Towers called "The Voice of Saruman".

As a counterpoint: Saruman the White and his horde of orcs were about as evil as they come, there were evil humans of both light and dark skin, and that applies to many of the "good" races.

Glass-wearing Saruman could laugh at your face, and ask "what do we have to fear?" Only thing Gandalf can do is to throw a blanket over their head and state that the usage of the data is unaccounted for and we don't know who's watching.

In Eskov's version of the story, Mordor is described as a peaceful country on the verge of an industrial revolution, that is a threat to the war-mongering and imperialistic faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude has been described by Saruman as "crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem") and the elves.

Edward Woodward's performance in it is so bad that it elevates Lee, so it's a pretty good showcase for non-Saruman non-Dracula Lee.

Instead of doing that, Gandalf laughs, insults Saruman, and breaks his fucking staff.

Those who hear the invitation believe that Gandalf will go into the tower to confer with Saruman, and will then emerge again to tell everyone their fate.