Saruman may have thought that he was being clever by deceiving Sauron into thinking that he was the latter's servant, but it was not so. Sauron was The Deceiver. He saw through Saruman's plans from the very beginning, and was just using the wizard to do his dirty work for him, so that he wouldn't have to expend much-needed troops, needed in the assault on Gondor.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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