LOTR: Saruman Made One Big Mistake That Cost Him Everything

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Call it luck, or call it fate, each member of the fellowship has had more than their fair share of close calls across the course of their journey to get the ring to Mordor in Lord of the Rings. Whether it’s narrowly evading capture by a vicious band of orcs, barely surviving a deadly encounter with a group of wargs, or the many battles they survive, every one of the companions has had some near-misses that could have changed the outcome of the entire quest, and the fate of Middle Earth as a whole. Luckily for the heroes of the story, these ‘skin of the teeth’ moments usually work out favorably, and end up with them getting to where they are meant to be, even if they took the long way round. This is one of Tolkien’s core themes in all of his books: Good always prevails.

However, for the villains of the story, these narrow escapes never work out quite so favorably. Often it is the character’s own hubris, selfishness, lack of foresight, or greed, that ultimately leads to their undoing, and these times usually end up with the good and kind-hearted characters gaining the upper hand and barely avoiding the awful fate that the villain had in store for them. There are lots of examples of this in the books; for example, Sauron’s self-assurance that no one would ever be able to resist the power of the One Ring meant that he couldn’t possibly conceive of or prevent his own defeat. There is, however, another villain who made a disastrous error.

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Arguably, one of the most prevalent and painful examples of this hubris is Saruman’s big mistake, a decision that cost him the entire war of the ring: capturing and confessing to Gandalf. There are so many reasons why