BalrogRingDestroyer
Active Member
Was it:
1.) Greed and envy
2.) Messing with that Palantir too much and going to deep into the arts of Sauron
3.) A desire for more wisdom so he could help Middle Earth, and he believed that the Ring was the best means to it (in this regard, Saruman wouldn't have been lying when he said to Gandalf that it would be best if the Ring were controlled by one of them so that the Wise could direct Middle Earth and bring it to be run better (the very folly that lured Sauron to the Dark Side in the First Age.)
1.) Greed and envy
2.) Messing with that Palantir too much and going to deep into the arts of Sauron
3.) A desire for more wisdom so he could help Middle Earth, and he believed that the Ring was the best means to it (in this regard, Saruman wouldn't have been lying when he said to Gandalf that it would be best if the Ring were controlled by one of them so that the Wise could direct Middle Earth and bring it to be run better (the very folly that lured Sauron to the Dark Side in the First Age.)