There might be no better argument for the 'Lord of the Rings' extended editions than a particularly baffling cut from the theatrical versions.

We don’t know much about what happened to most of the Istari after the events of The Lord of the Rings. Obviously, Saruman turned ... captured by the treacherous White Wizard, it was Radagast ...

Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is an insult ... But there was a more apt insult for Çiftçi to level. Erdogan is Saruman the traitor, forfeiting Turkey’s past alliance ...

The exploitative, resource-stripping characters encountered in the special are not noticeably different from Saruman and his destruction of the forests around Isengard, except that the devastation ...