Dr Saruman Wonka

For those that only saw the movies I will give a quick epilogue of what happened after The Return of the King.

So we all saw the Ents attack and utterly destroy Saruman’s fortress of Isengard. What we dont see is the Ents keeping Saruman as a prisoner in his own home. More than fair considering that Saruman killed many Ents in his quest for power. As well Saruman is banished from from his order and his staff broken.

Eventually, he is released when he agrees to hand over the Keys to Orthanc and fled to Hobbiton where he became a small time crook. After the Battle of Bywater, Frodo confronted him and banished from the Shire. But it was too late for Saruman as Grimma Wormtongue slit his throat at the steps to Bag End.

Because Saruman is a Maia, he cannot truly die. Much like Gandalf returning to Middle Earth as the White Wizard to replace Saruman. Saruman was not allowed to the return to the Halls of Mandos and subsequently his incorporeal spirit had to go…well anywhere else.

The quote goes as:

“Whereas Curunir was cast down, and utterly humbled, and perished at last by the hand of an oppressed slave; and his spirit went whither-soever it was doomed to go, and to Middle-earth, whether naked or embodied, came never back”

Now we come to the point of this : What happened to Saruman after he was banished from Middle earth?

Well we know that while his power was severely diminished once he was banished and his staff broken, he was not without all his power.

After he was banished, he scoured the cosmos looking for a new home. Now we may assume that Saruman has some sense of remorse over his actions, having been banished from his celestial and earthly home. It may very well have caused an existential crisis as he was suddenly homeless.

Now we come to early Victorian England, in a place called Earth. It somewhat reminds him of the place he left behind and could never return, so he decides to reassemble himself there. But what does he do with his life now? He has to find a place to live, a way to make a living. He begins to observe the world around him and as a form of penance to his old life decides to ease suffering instead of being the cause of it.

After looking around he finally decides to become a dentist. Possibly because he can see that while modern medicine is making its own strides in progress, Dentistry was still rather brutal. So much so that, as we all know, people were more comfortable allowing their mouth to rot than see a dentist.

So using his limited powers, especially his Voice, he talked his way into Dentist school and received his education and license to practice.

He changes his name to Wilbur Wonka for legal purposes, and trying to have a normal sounding name.

As time goes on, he begins to feel a sense of relief in his new life. He feels at one with the world as he uses his profound skill as a Maia and knowledge of Dentistry to give a near painless visit to each of his patients. Doing so in this time grants him some notoriety and small measure of fame. But he does not allow this to inflate his ego once again.

However, he does begin to feel a little lonely. So many days without anyone but his patients to talk to, he doesn’t get out much as it is; what would he talk about? Elves? Orcs? Magic Rings and little people? While this world has stories about such things, it seems that only the children have any belief in these creatures.

Saruman begins to contemplate creating someone to pass his time with and wisdom along to. Perhaps create a progeny that he can hopefully make into a better person. Like we all wish for our children.

Thus William Wonka is born, although from what we dont know. Never in the movie do we even hear of Willy’s mother ever being in his life. Not even so much that she died at birth or when he was very young. As though she was never there to begin with at all. So much like his fighting Uruk-Hai, Willy was made. Which makes sense since he was a Maia of Aule the Smith.

The child of a Wizard would be a unique child indeed. Creative, although possibly awkward as things just make sense to him in ways that the typical person cant understand. Intelligent, of course, as acquired knowledge comes easy to their kind. Saruman would once again use his Voice to convince those around him that nothing was unusual about the sudden appearance of a child in his life. Especially without a mother.

However, by now Dr. Wilbur Wonka has developed the assumed obsession of teeth that comes with his trade and add to that the focus and dedication of a Wizard. Willy’s teeth are never quite perfect enough. Wilbur Wonka only wants what’s best for him and at this moment in his life its his teeth. Because of course they are going to be both very long lived as they are celestial beings.

However, Willy Wonka decides he wants to make candy. Perhaps adopting his father’s desire to bring comfort and happiness to people, his father through gentle and relatively pain free dentistry and his son through candy.

Dr. Wilbur Wonka condemns this decision and when the argument comes to a head he tells Willy that if he leaves he wont be there when he returns. Keeping his word the entire house is missing when Willy gets back from what was just a day at the museum.

Now no regular person could just uproot a house like that without magical support. Neither house to its flanks are disturbed and no one even seems to notice except for Willy. Then later on we find the house located in what appears to be the antarctic. Completely intact and functional.

Now we come to Willy Wonka’s adult life as a candy maker. Literally making magic candy. Such as when Grandpa Joe eats the candy egg that hatches a live chocolate bird! Or the everlasting gobstopper…never goes away? Perhaps the best evidence for Willy’s abilities come from his various rooms for making candy. Chocolate waterfalls, edible grass, magic soda that makes you float, or transporting candy through the TV. There are so many ideas and gadgets in his factory that could only be manufactured by a Wizard.

The Great Glass Elevator..enough said.

So what about the Oompa-Loompas? Well we know that Maia and Wizards can travel to and from places beyond our comprehension. Perhaps Willy, having no one to really guide him through the magical abilities he would mature into, accidentally discovers a means to travel into different dimensions or realities. There he discovers the oompa-loompas and a world not so dis-similar to ours as Saruman discovered ours not so different from Middle Earth.

Willy Wonka has no reason to think that he has been anywhere special or unknown. Which is why he is somewhat upset when he gets called out about Loompaland. He knows its real but cant prove it to these people.

Here we can leave the explanation of the Oompa Loompas to their original form, tiny people from a different reality.

Now because he is only the creation of a Maia and not one himself entirely, he is going to die someday. Its at the point that he becomes aware of his impending death that he runs the contest. He not only becomes aware of his own mortality like many of us do…he becomes aware of the relative (or possibly exact) time of his death. Thus his own quest for an heir begins. But he has no concept of birth and life…so he must find a progeny.

To wrap this up Im going to add a quote from the original “If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it; want to change the world… there’s nothing to it.”

Willy is talking about his, and his father’s, ability to literally change the world around them.