Christopher Lee credited as playing...
Saruman
- Galadriel: You carry something. It came to you from Radagast. He found it in Dol Guldur.
- Gandalf: Yes.
- Galadriel: Show it to me.
- [Gandalf takes out a package]
- Elrond: What is that?
- Galadriel: A relic... of Mordor.
- Elrond: A Morgul-blade!
- Galadriel: Made for the Witch-king of Angmar and buried with him. When Angmar fell, the Men of the North took his body and all that he possessed and sealed it within the High Fells of Rhudaur. Deep within the rock, they buried him. In a tomb so dark, it would never come to light.
- Elrond: This is not possible. A powerful spell lies upon those tombs, they can NOT be opened.
- Saruman: What proof do we have this weapon came from Angmar's grave?
- Gandalf: I can find none.
- Saruman: Because there IS none! Let us examine what we know: A single Orc pack has dared to cross the Bruinen, a dagger from a bygone age has been found and a human sorcerer who calls himself the Necromancer has taken up residence in a ruined fortress. It's not so very much. After all, the question of this Dwarvish company, however, troubles me deeply. I'm not convinced, Gandalf. I do not feel I can condone such a quest. If they had come to me, I might have spared them from this disappointment...
- Galadriel: [while Saruman talks] They are leaving.
- Gandalf: Yes.
- Galadriel: [smiles] You knew.
- Galadriel: The dragon has long been on your mind.
- Gandalf: This is true, my lady. Smaug owes allegiance to no one, but if he should side with the Enemy... A dragon could be used to terrible effect.
- Saruman: What enemy? Gandalf, the Enemy is defeated. Sauron is vanquished. He can never regain his full strength.
- Elrond: Gandalf, for four hundred years, we have lived in peace - a hard-won, watchful peace.
- Gandalf: Are we, are we at peace? Trolls have come down from the mountains, they are raiding villages, destroying farms. Orcs have attacked us on the road!
- Elrond: Hardly a prelude to war.
- Saruman: Always you must meddle, looking for trouble when none exist...
- Galadriel: Let him speak.
- Gandalf: There is something at work beyond the evil of Smaug. Something far more powerful. We could remain blind to it but it will not be ignoring us, that I can promise you. A sickness lies over the Greenwood. The Woodsmen who live there now call it Mirkwood and, uh, they say...
- Saruman: Well, don't stop now. Tell us what the Woodsmen say.
- Gandalf: They speak of a Necromancer living in Dol Guldur, a sorcerer who could summon the dead.
- Saruman: That's absurd. No such power exists in this world. This "Necromancer" is nothing more than a mortal man, a conjurer dabbling in black magic.
- Gandalf: And so I thought too, but Radagast had seen...
- Saruman: Radagast? Do not speak to me of Radagast the Brown. He is a foolish fellow.
- Gandalf: Well, he's odd, I'll grant you. He lives a solitary life...
- Saruman: It's not that. It's his excessive consumption of mushrooms! They've addled his brain and yellowed his teeth!
- Gandalf: Does it not worry you that the last of the Dwarf-rings should simply vanish along with its bearer? Of the Seven Dwarf-rings, four were consumed by dragons, two were taken by Sauron before he fell in Mordor... the fate of the last Dwarf-ring remains unknown, the ring that was borne by Thrain.
- Saruman: Without the Ruling Ring of Power, the Seven are no value to the Enemy. To control the other Rings, he needs the One. And that Ring was lost long, long ago. It was swept out to sea by the waters of the Anduin.