How about these?
Saruman chastises Gandalf for his smoking habit but becomes addicted to the stuff himself.
Saruman's favourite whipping boy, Wormtongue, is the one that kills him.
Saruman's obsession with obtaining the Ring himself helps to distract Sauron from the true path the Ring is taking, ultimately leading to it's destruction.
I think the ultimate irony is (as has already been mentioned) that the inhabitants of the one land that Sauron ignores as being too insignificant, are the beings that ultimately bite him in the *** .
H.C.
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-Denethor
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