| 1 | * "The Hunt for the Ring" |
| 2 | ** While searching for The Shire, the Nazgûl stop at Orthanc to see if Saruman knows anything. Saruman refuses them entry because a. he's keeping Gandalf prisoner on the roof and doesn't want them to know, and b. he's afraid of them. So he tells the Witch-king of Angmar he hasn't a clue where The Shire is and sends them back towards Rohan. The Nazgûl bump into Gríma, who out of sheer terror immediately reveals Saruman lied to them. The Nazgûl are ''not'' amused. |
| 3 | ** An alternate draft has the Witch-king running into one of Saruman's agents in Bree, who turns over detailed maps of the Shire and its families that Saruman had given him, which makes Saruman's deception even more blatant. |
| 4 | ** All the details of Saruman's completely one-sided rivalry with Gandalf. Such as Saruman sneaking around the Shire to see what's so great about hobbits and getting spotted (which he finds out when Gandalf says that the hobbits saw "him" while he was far elsewhere). And his contempt for pipe-weed, finding out that he likes it, and then treating his new smoking habit as a secret on par with his desire to find the Ring because he would be ''that'' embarrassed to change his mind in front of Gandalf. |
| 5 | * "The Quest of Erebor" |
| 6 | ** After getting sick of Thorin's complaints about the uselessness of hobbits, Gandalf decides to add one to the quest ''specifically'' to annoy him. |
| 7 | ** Gandalf blithely deciding on Bilbo as the Hobbit for the job based on how Bilbo was at 30, completely forgetting that twenty years is a much bigger chunk of time for a Hobbit than it is for Dwarves and Wizards. Although not apparent in ''The Hobbit'', it's also revealed that Gandalf briefly thought he really had made a terrible mistake when he saw what a stick-in-the-mud Bilbo had become in the intervening years, until he proved his mettle. |
| 8 | ** His repeated efforts to explain the potential value of a Hobbit result in a SustainedMisunderstanding until he throws his hands in the air and "agrees" that of ''course'' Bilbo is a thief (how else could a non-Dwarf be prosperous!) of the highest caliber. |
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