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Saruman: I am Saruman, Saruman the Ring-maker, Saruman of the Not-So-Many Colors, Saruman the Half-Frog!
Gandalf: I like 'Maia' better.
Saruman: Maia? Ha! A post for fools and braggarts! Wrinkled amphibians; that's were the real power is. Ya see, it's all about the colors, Gandy. Dull, sickly green is the new black.
P.S. Yes, I know it's actually Thranduil.
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"What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name,
Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law.
For old our office, and our fame,"
-Aeschylus, Song of the Furies
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