They thought they’d use the powers of Sauron to their own ends, for their own betterment, to achieve useful goals… they think they can negotiate and plot with Sauron as an equal, who repsects them.
They do not realize that the nature of Sauron is insidious, is to corrupt… they do not comprehend the magnitude and the scope of the power they foolishly think themselves sufficiently clever to wield … they do not realize that Sauron perverts the minds and nature of his acolytes into generally not even being able to consider or think of disagreeing with him.
Corruptible, contemptible, vain… men.
Look how they even literally, very directly, destroy the beauty of the natural land around them, in a mad, paradoxical quest to ‘apparently’ preserve it and increase its bounty.
They’re Saruman.
They thought they’d use the powers of Sauron to their own ends, for their own betterment, to achieve useful goals… they think they can negotiate and plot with Sauron as an equal, who repsects them.
They do not realize that the nature of Sauron is insidious, is to corrupt… they do not comprehend the magnitude and the scope of the power they foolishly think themselves sufficiently clever to wield … they do not realize that Sauron perverts the minds and nature of his acolytes into generally not even being able to consider or think of disagreeing with him.
Corruptible, contemptible, vain… men.
Look how they even literally, very directly, destroy the beauty of the natural land around them, in a mad, paradoxical quest to ‘apparently’ preserve it and increase its bounty.