# LotR what-if\*: Saruman gains the One Ring

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-what-if-saruman-gains-the-one-ring/485972>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 15, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-what-if-saruman-gains-the-one-ring/485972 "2009-02-15T18:19:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-what-if-saruman-gains-the-one-ring/485972/21 "2009-02-17T20:48:26Z")

</div>

> [@MrDibble](#):
>
> Saruman was also quite the Ring-Lore scholar - had he not gone as far as to make his own, lesser ring, or is that just the MERP talking? If so, it’s possible he would be better placed than most to unlock the deeper secrets of the One.

He made a Ring, but we have no clue what it did or was capable of. But he was the most studied in Ring Lore.

Now as one of the Maia of Aulë he was greatly skilled in craft. He also had a chance to perhaps speak to some of the Ring Smiths before he came to Middle-Earth as Saruman.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-what-if-saruman-gains-the-one-ring/485972.md?page=1)