chapotraphouse

The Palantir for which the company is named is one of Sarumon's artifacts, a "seeing stone" which allows observation of the outside world and communication with distant beings. It is through this in the first place that Sarumon is first contacted by Sauron and convinced to become a collaborator with evil. Because Gandalf is out in the world grilling, he is vaccinated against such appeals, but because Sarumon just spends his life in his magic goon cave thinking about how powerful and smart he is, he's easily brought over to Sauron's side by flattery and logic like "actually it's good to join the dark side because I can push Sauron left, and maybe even I could start my own dual power dark army, and even if the dark lord wins would that actually be so bad?" Sarumon is really the most interesting character and one of the best fictional portrayals of an elite fascist I can think of.

I went in and I'm like "i'm not gonna read all that" and I didn't but I read this paragraph and lmfao "gandalf out there grillin'" while Sarumon "spends his life in his magic goon cave" thinking about how powerful and smart he is" lol i'm sorry I think that's funny