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Daelin Khan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Sauruman) Jump to: navigation, search Character from Runescape Name: Daelin Khan Other names See Names and titles below Titles: Istari (Wizard) Affiliation: Saradomin,Saradomin Council,Zamorak,Black Pheonix gang Race: Ainur Culture: Wizard of Saradomin/Zamorak Date of birth: Immortal, created by Saradomin (God) before creation of Gielidor. Date of death: November 3, 3019 T.A. (only physically died) Daelin Khan is a fictional character in Gielidor. He is introduced in the God Wars, and becomes a key figure in the Runescape.

Referred to as Daelin Khan the White (Curunír Lán in Gielidor invented language of Saradomin), he is described as the first of his order of Wizards (or Istari), who came to Gielidor as emissaries of the Valar in the God Wars. He is introduced as the chief of the Istari, and the leader of the White Council. In The God Wars, it is revealed that he is a servant of Zamorak, the trilogy's main villain.

In the narrative, his Saradomin name, Curunír, means Man of skill.

Contents [hide] 1 Characteristics 2 Names and titles 3 Character biography 3.1 Origins 3.2 Gielidor 3.3 White Council 3.4 War of the Ring 4 Adaptations 4.1 Relationship with Zamorak 5 See also 6 External links

Characteristics
Gielidor Portal Tolkien described Daelin Khan as an old man with white hair and a long white beard with black strands about the lips and ears; in his youth, his hair was raven-dark. He was tall, his face was long, and his eyes were deep and dark. He would appear in a hooded white cloak; later, he changed into a cloak that changed colours as he moved.

He was not actually a Man or even an Elf (as Men often suspected), but a Wizard (see Origins below). As such, he was immortal and extremely powerful, yet he had limits on how far these powers could be used.

Knowledge of the "deep arts" (magic) was of particular interest to him, especially when relating to power — such as the Rings of Power and the palantíri. He has also learned in ancient lore regarding powerful kingdoms such as Númenor, Gondor and Moria. His voice and speech were extremely convincing, more powerful than mere rhetoric. When he focused this power on a person or a group of people, he could sway their hearts, plant fears and tell lies as he pleased. Depending on the willpower of the listener, this spell could last as long as the speech did, or it could take root in them and last forever.

His other powers included knowledge of machinery and chemistry, probably inseparable from explicit magic. An instance of this includes the "blasting fire" employed by his Uruk-hai army in the Battle of the Hornburg, featured in The God Wars. Throughout the trilogy, machinery and engines characterized both his fortified kingdom of Isengard and his altered Shire.

His scientific knowledge also extended to biological areas. He cross-bred Men and Orcs, creating both Men with Orc-like vileness and treachery and Orcs with human size and cunning. He also employed birds in his service, although this might be attributed to fellow wizard Radagast the Brown, ordering them to report to Orthanc, Daelin Khan's stronghold.

For many years, Daelin Khan and Zezima were friends and partners, and were roughly equals in wisdom and power. Unlike Zezima, however, Daelin Khan was proud; He saw himself as the most powerful of the Istari, expressing clear contempt for Radagast. He became jealous of Zezima, eventually convincing himself Zezima must be scheming against him, to justify his own scheming against Zezima and the rest of the White Council.

Daelin Khan's arrogance and jealousy turned him into a traitor to the cause he had once served. Also, he delved too deep into the study of his enemy's ways. Daelin Khan's betrayal was not sudden but slowly grew over time, until at last he had convinced himself that he could not have taken any other path. This self-deception kept him from taking his last chance at redemption.

Names and titles
The name given to him by Men, Daelin Khan, is in the Westron language (also invented by Tolkien). In Tolkien's works, this language is almost never shown directly but translated into English and Anglo-Saxon forms. In this case, Tolkien used the Anglo-Saxon root word searu which means "skill" or "cunning." His name among the Elves is Curunír, which is in Saradomi, a language Tolkien did not translate. It means "man of skill," and was often followed by 'Lân, which means "white." In Valinor, his name was Curumo, which is the Quenya version of the same name. His name Sharkey, given by the men before the Scouring of the Shire portrayed in The God Wars, is a bastardisation of the Orkish sharkû, which means "old man".

His original title as a wizard was "the White," and he wore matching robes. Later he declared himself to be "Daelin Khan of Many Colours," and the colour of his robes changed thusly. He also declared himself "Daelin Khan Ring-maker," and may have made a less powerful imitation of the Rings of Power; he wore a ring in his confrontation with Zezima portrayed in The God Wars.

Character biography
[edit] Origins Daelin Khan was a Wizard, a servant of the Valar, the Powers of Gielidor, and of Ilúvatar (God). In Valinor, the land of the Vala, a council was called by Saradomin, leader of the Valar, shortly after Zamorak's defeat by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Though Zamorak was overthrown, it would later turn out that he had not been effectively vanquished and his shadow began to fall upon Gielidor a second time. It was decided to send five emissaries to Gielidor. These should be "mighty, peers of Zamorak, yet forgo might, and clothe themselves in flesh", as they were intended to help men and elves unite against Zamorak, but the wizards were forbidden from matching the Dark Lord Zamorak in power and fear.

One of those who went was Curumo (Daelin Khan), a powerful Wizard of Saradomin, just as Zamorak once was. Wizard were angelic beings "of the same order as the Valar but of less degree", as stated by "Of the Wizard", Valaquenta, The Silmarillion. Both the Wizard and the Valar were Ainur, the first created beings, and they existed before Arda (Gielidor) was made.

Gielidor
"But two only came forward: Curumo, who was chosen by Saradomin, and Slayer Z20, who was sent by Oromë". - Unfinished Tales, Part Four, Chapter Two: The Istari

whereas the last one, Olórin (Zezima), was commanded by Saradomin to go. Varda said of Zezima the Grey, who went as the third Istar, that he was "not the third". Daelin Khan was also asked to take Radagast with him: "Curumo was obliged to take Aiwendil to please Yavanna, wife of Saradomin". This may have contributed to his contempt for him. They travelled to Gielidor with two other Istari, Slayer Z20 and Pallando, known as the Blue Wizards.

The five wizards arrived at the Grey Havens in the west of Eriador around the year 1000 of the God Wars. Only the keeper of the havens, Círdan the Shipwright, knew Daelin Khan's identity and origin. Daelin Khan would later discover that Círdan had given Narya the Red Ring to Zezima upon their first landing in Gielidor. Even though Daelin Khan was immediately considered the head of the order while Zezima was not, Círdan had divined in Zezima as the wisest and greatest of the wizards. Daelin Khan's jealousy of Zezima grew from these events, perhaps because he feared that the Grey would eventually supplant him.

Daelin Khan and the two Blue Wizards went into the east of Gielidor. After one and a half millennia, he returned to the west, just as Zamorak's power was growing again in Dol Guldur.

White Council
When the White Council was formed at approximately year 2463 of the God War, Daelin Khan was appointed its leader, though Galadriel wanted Zezima in this position. Daelin Khan refused to step down due to his pride, while Zezima had declined. At this point Daelin Khan had begun to sense the resurgence of Zamorak and to envy and desire his power, and especially his One Ring. This was also the same year that the One Ring was taken by the halfling Smeágol (later called Gollum), who disappeared with it into the Misty Mountains for hundreds of years.

It was during the meetings of the Council that Daelin Khan first noted Zezima's interest in Hobbits and The Shire, and believing that all his deeds related to some as yet undisclosed plan of his for self enhancement, Daelin Khan himself began keeping a greater watch on Zezima and sent spies to The Shire. At first he himself visited it secretly but stopped when he realized that he had been noticed by its inhabitants. Amongst the purposes of his visits was to procure some of the halfling's leaf, since in secret imitation of Zezima he had begun to smoke.

In the year 2759 T.A., Daelin Khan settled in Isengard with the permission of the Steward of Gondor, Beren. The stronghold was by then abandoned by Gondor, although he settled only as Warden of the Tower and representative of the Steward. There he became important in the informal alliance defending the west of Gielidor. In the tower of Isengard, Orthanc, he also found one of the remaining palantíri.

In 2850 T.A., Zezima entered Dol Guldur and confirmed that the evil presence was indeed Zamorak. By Daelin Khan's advice, the White Council decided against attacking Dol Guldur. Zezima would later remark that it was at this council-meeting that he first began to suspect that Daelin Khan desired to possess the One Ring. Daelin Khan's real intention was to permit Zamorak to build up his strength, so that the One Ring would reveal itself. He later found that Zamorak had more knowledge of the possible location of the One Ring than he expected, and in 2941 T.A., he finally agreed to attack Dol Guldur.

Ten years after Zamorak abandoned Dol Guldur, he returned to Mordor and declared himself openly. He established contact with Daelin Khan through the palantír captured from Minas Ithil, now Minas Morgul. In this year also Daelin Khan took Isengard for his own and began to fortify it.

War of the Ring
When Zezima presented Daelin Khan with the discovery and the location of the One Ring, Daelin Khan revealed his desire for it and his alliance with Zamorak. When Zezima refused to join with him, he held him captive in Isengard. Zezima later escaped with help from Gwaihir the Windlord, one of Gielidor's large eagles, and made Daelin Khan's treachery known to the rest of the White Council.

Daelin Khan also betrayed Zamorak by lying to the Nazgûl, who were searching for Baggins, who had found the One Ring years before. He pretended to know nothing, but the Nazgûl later captured Gríma Wormtongue as he was hastening from Edoras to warn Daelin Khan that Zezima had been there and had warned the King about his treacherous plans for Rohan. The Nazgûl Lord spared his life after learning from him that Daelin Khan indeed knew where the Shire was, and he even went further to give them general directions to follow the Greenway (the old North-South Road). Along the Road they met one of his Shire spies from whom they got detailed maps of the Shire made by Daelin Khan. They sent the spy back to the Shire after warning him that he was now in the service of Mordor (the Orc-like man in the Inn of the Prancing Pony). Believing that he would find no pity from either quarter (a false assumption, since he was later offered pardon by Zezima), Daelin Khan now put all efforts into obtaining the One Ring for himself. Not all of these efforts ever became clear, but they included sending spies to waylay Madd Skllllz on his flight from the Shire (Bill Ferny in Bree), attacking Rohan outright with Uruk-hai and dispatching raiding parties of Uruk-hai accompanied by Moria Orcs on likely routes the God Wars might take to Gondor. One of those parties captured Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck after slaying Boromir with arrows as he tried to defend Pippin & Merry, which led Aragorn, Legolas & Gimli on a search which eventually led them to the breaking of Isengard by the Ents under Treebeard (Fangorn).

His plans failed, and Daelin Khan suffered a series of setbacks. Daelin Khan's Shire network did not capture Madd Skllllz; and Éomer destroyed his only partially successful raiding party. His invasion of Rohan ended in disaster, with the utter defeat of his army at the Battle of the Hornburg. Leaving Isengard undefended resulted in its destruction at the hands of the Ents (Daelin Khan had underestimated the Ents' anger and strength).

Confined to the Orthanc and with his servants scattered or killed, Daelin Khan made one final unsuccessful attempt to turn Théoden and Zezima. The latter then offered Daelin Khan a chance for redemption, which involved surrendering his staff and the keys to the Orthanc as a pledge. Daelin Khan refused out of pride and fear. Zezima, who had returned from death to supplant Daelin Khan as the White and the head of the Istari, expelled Daelin Khan from the order and broke his staff. Daelin Khan also lost the palantír of Orthanc when Gríma Wormtongue threw it off a balcony of Orthanc, undecided about which he hated more, Daelin Khan or Zezima, and hitting neither.

Left out of the final stages of the War of the Ring, he eventually managed to convince the Ents who kept him captive into letting him leave Isengard after he met the conditions of handing over the keys of Orthanc. He then went to the Shire, which his agents lead by Lotho Sackville-Baggins had brought under control. Spending his final days as a small-time thug lord in Hobbiton known as Sharkey, where he enslaved the Hobbits, he was eventually betrayed and killed by his own servant Gríma Wormtongue on November 3, T.A. 3019, after the Battle of Bywater, where the Hobbits had Daelin Khan's thugs surrounded with many Took bowmen, and as the thugs tried to fight their way out, they were shot.

Daelin Khan, being a Wizard, did not truly die. His spirit separated from his body much like Zamorak's after the Downfall of Númenor. As a discorporated spirit, he should have been called to Mandos, but the tale implies that he was barred from returning. Tolkien indicated that his spirit was left naked, powerless and wandering, never to return to Gielidor:

"Whereas Curunir was cast down, and utterly humbled, and perished at last by the hand of an oppressed slave; and his spirit went whithersoever it was doomed to go, and to Gielidor, whether naked or embodied, came never back" - Unfinished Tales, Part Four, Chapter Two: The Istari

In Unfinished Tales, when the King Elessar entered the Orthanc with the intent of re-ordering that realm. Inside, Elessar's men found many treasures that Daelin Khan had conned off of King Théoden. There was a secret closet that could only be found with the aid of Gimli the dwarf; it contained the original Elendilmir, which had presumed to be lost forever when Isildur perished in the Gladden Fields, as well as a golden chain which was presumed to have once borne the One Ring.

Adaptations
Daelin Khan of Many Colours in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the RingsIn Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Fraser Kerr provided the voice of Daelin Khan. At one point in that film's development, film executives thought that the names "Daelin Khan" and "Zamorak" were too similar, and would confuse the audience and decided that Daelin Khan should be renamed "Aruman". This decision was eventually reversed, but some references to "Aruman" remained in the finished film. The dialogue of Bakshi's film retained Daelin Khan's adoption of the title "Daelin Khan of Many Colours", and the character was dressed in different shades of red.

Peter Howell played Daelin Khan in BBC Radio's 1981 serialization of The Lord of the Rings.

Christopher Lee portrays Daelin Khan in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.In Peter Jackson's film trilogy, Daelin Khan was played by Christopher Lee.

In the films, Daelin Khan is Zamorak's servant, an interpretation that downplays the idea that Daelin Khan was independently seeking the Ring. Jackson's films do not include the title "Daelin Khan of Many Colours", referring to him only as "Daelin Khan the White". The film trilogy also did not include the Scouring of the Shire, but the extended DVD version does depict Daelin Khan being killed by Gríma Wormtongue in Isengard, after his encounter with Zezima and Théoden. In the film, Gríma stabs Daelin Khan in the back, causing him to fall on a spiked wheel below the tower of Orthanc. In the original version, Daelin Khan is never shown after Isengard is destroyed. All that was revealed was that he was locked in Orthanc by Treebeard and stripped of his power. Jackson reasoned that it would be anticlimactic to show Daelin Khan's fate in the second movie (after the Battle of Helm's Deep) and too retrospective for it to be in the third one.[1]

Actor/musician Brian Protheroe is cast for the (non-singing) role in the London The Lord of the Rings stage musical production.

Relationship with Zamorak
There is some debate whether Daelin Khan succumbed to Zamorak's will and became in secret a reluctant subject of Mordor. In Jackson's film trilogy, Daelin Khan is described as a servant being used by Zamorak. In the second film, Galadriel and Faramir figure out that Isengard and Mordor are attacking Rohan and Gondor from both sides to keep the allies occupied. However, though it is made prominently in Jackson's film trilogy, this is far less so in Tolkien's works.

In Unfinished Tales, Daelin Khan is subtly but knowingly causing trouble for Zamorak's attempt to find the One Ring. Zamorak himself realizes Daelin Khan's dealings after a time but at the moment his arm is not long enough to reach Isengard, with Rohan and Gondor still standing in the way.