Narrator: It is night
in Isengard. Menacing fires burn deep from within the orc pits scattered
around the ruined valley of Nan Curunir. The treacherous wizard Saruman
moves about the Tower of Orthanc. Answering the call of his vile master,
Saruman reaches out to a crystal-like globe on a black pedestal. It
is the Palantir of Orthanc... a seeing-stone of Eldamar.
Sauron: SA-RU-MAN!
Saruman: Ello monsieur! How-a may I serve you?
Sauron: Saruman... you must attack Rohan! Send forth
your massive army over the hills and valleys of the Riddermark. Take
the woman Eowyn for your queen. This will be your kingdom I give to
you as my foremost of allies.
Saruman: But monsieur—
Sauron: Sauron, Saruman. Sauron.
Saruman: B-b-but Sauron, zat will take-a my whole army...
I will-a be defenseless here if ze—
Sauron: Listen, Saruman. I built my kingdom up from
nothing. When I started here in Mordor, it was dominated by a ruddy
great volcano surrounded by run-down shanty towns and festering pits.
And now look at it! Comfortable accommodation for millions and festering
pits so foul that any decent Orc would sell his grandmother to wallow
in them. The Eldar all thought I was daft to build my fortress of Barad-dur
here, but I built it all the same—just to show 'em! The Noldor
attacked and destroyed it. So, I built a second one. The Numenoreans
attacked and destroyed it. So, I built a third one, Dol Guldur, in a
swamp in southern Mirkwood. The blasted elves attacked, burned it down,
knocked it over, and what was left sank into the swamp, but the joke
was on them because it was a decoy while I built Barad-dur up again...
and this one is staying up!
Saruman: But—
Sauron: And that's what we've got between the two of
us, Saruman... Orthanc and Barad-dur, the two strongest towers in all
of Middle Earth.
Saruman: But I don't want-a any of Rohan. I'd rather—
Sauron: Rather what?!
Saruman: I'd rather... jus'... find-a ze Ring!
Sauron: Now listen, Saruman. In twenty-four hours,
I want you to hurl your entire massive army at Rohan and capture the
girl whose uncle owns the biggest tracts of open land west of Rhun.
Saruman: B-but I don't want-a anymore land.
Sauron: Now listen up, Sharky—
Saruman: Saruman.
Sauron: Saruman. We live in bloody desolate places.
Orcs can't live on lava alone you know. You trashed Angrenost building
your army. We need all the good agricultural land we can get. Think
of the elephants, man! They can't eat dust and ashes!
Saruman: But—but I don't like her very much-a.
Sauron: Don't like Eowyn?! What's wrong with her?!
She's beautiful. She's rich. She has great tits. She's got a lush—um—
lots of lush, prime agricultural land!
Saruman: Oh, yes-a, I know... but all zat-a is irrelevant.
Only ze One
Ring-a matters!
Sauron: Look, you're attacking Rohan and marrying Eowyn,
so you'd better get used to the idea!
Saruman: How-a 'bout I attack Rohan, but give-a Eowyn
to Grima instead?
Sauron: Fine, enough already with your frog-ish whining...
just do it so that Rohan is no more in a very final and legally
binding sense!
Saruman: Alrighty, oh boy, It shall-a be done!

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