Why didn't Saruman take Gandalf's Ring?

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Originally posted by cassiopeia
I suppose the answer to this question depends how much credence you give to the text in UT. As Artanis said, it was written after the LOTR was written, so Tolkien would not have know that Saruman knew that Gandalf had the ring (whew, I hope that made sense!)

Don't you mean before?

Does anyone think that Saruman could have known Gandalf had Narya through "wizard's intuition?" Perhaps he didn't need to be told, he could just sense it, either when the transfer occured, or when he interacted with Gandalf. (Kind of like when Gandalf "knows" things at different times throughout the books) OR one could speculate about his hearing about it from birds that witnessed it or something.