| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | HondaRider91 (4)
09/28/2008 | Betrayer. All he did was hinder man from winning Middle Earth. Terrible what he did to Isengard, that place was beautiful.
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 | oscargamblesfro (81)
12/12/2005 | Among the top characters as far as complexity goes, always interesting and even quite funny at times. Complicated, gifted, powerful, conniving, wise yet foolish. The epitome of the tragic hero who falls so far from grace, and his debate at Orthanc with Gandalf is some of the most exciting, fascinating, and well-written dialogue in all of Tolkien's writings. It is to Tolkien's credit that when Saruman is killed in The Shire by his abused servant Wormtongue, we ( depending on your own viewpoints of course) might even feel a slight tinge of pity ourselves for this once noble and good wizard who has become utterly loathsome.
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 | rowbite (0)
09/10/2005 | Of course you wanted him to die, he was a freaking bad guy. If they had Saruman help, then they would have had it way too easy. Besides, if it makes you mad he was such a jerk, take up with
Tolkien.
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 | pikachan (0)
03/09/2004 | my least favorite. This jerk of a wizard tried to kill Gandalf, then he creates an army of Orcs and others. I wanted this freak to die.
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 | VirileVagabond (37)
02/02/2004 | It is always hard for the bad guys to get their due, but Saruman provides a sympathetic character who fell from grace. As others have noted, Saruman's character could have been more fully developed. Tolkien apparently wanted to strike a balance between a complete mystery (eg Sauron) and more involved, yet less mysterious character. It would have been interesting to have Saruman introduced earlier and part of the fellowship to watch him as he slowly lost his inner battle with his pride and turned to the dark side.
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 | CherrySoda99 (31)
01/07/2004 | Well, for one thing, he's a bad guy. Another thing, he sounds like Darth Vader and lastly, he looks like he's about to die! Enough said!
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 | kyes (0)
02/07/2003 | You know I really didn't like the way they portrayed Saruman in the movie. He came across as completely possessed by Sauron, like the Black Riders were, but in the book he was smarter and more complex; trying to trick both Sauron and the good guys to get the Ring for himself. Still, I couldn't bring myself to hate him. Tolkien had a knack for getting readers (well, me at least) to pity the villains rather than simply hate them. Gandalf made it clear that he was not always evil, and when the threat of Isengard was taken care of, Gandalf still believed there was one last drop of good in him, but Saruman would not humble himself to use that last drop because he was too proud. Thus I got a sense of regret over his lost potential, and simply pitied the bitter-old-beggar he became in the end.
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| Saruman (0)
10/23/2002 |
I heard that.
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 | World Vision (0)
02/09/2002 | I'd like to pop his punk ass.
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