“One sees ‘Sandyman’s disease’ in an advanced form in Saruman: it starts as intellectual curiosity, develops as engineering skill, turns into greed and the desire to dominate, corrupts further into a hatred and contempt of the natural world which goes beyond any rational desire to use it.” Fantasy FictionLord Of The RingsTolkienSaruman Book:J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
“Sarumans of the real world rule by deluding their followers with images of a technological Paradise in the future, a modernist Utopia; but what one often gets (and this has become only more relevant since Tolkien wrote and since he died) are the blasted landscapes of Eastern Europe, strip-mined, polluted, and even radioactive.” TechnologyLord Of The RingsTolkienSaruman Book:J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
