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Originally Posted by Rinion  Thereafter, he spends almost all of his time in an attempt to find the Ring. |
Ture points, but I feel that he would not have betrayd Gandaulf as he might have the Rohan. Befrending the enemy to buy time to get the ring is not a stupid tactice, but turning his back on his fellow istari was what made me feel that he had become more than jealos - from memory I think at one point Gandaulf describes Sarumon as being corrupted by the enemy - the stuard of Gondor was also corrupted through the orb (can't remember name) and the dark lord also targeted either merry or pipin.
I think there was also that the feeling was given that once Sauron possessed the ring he would be tempted to use it - or carry it himself and thus be corrupted.- If in his full power that would have dramatically turned the titde of the war.