И это тоже (см. текст "Истари" из UT). А главное - что в своих занятиях фауной он искал власти. Но это не в "Письмах", я ошибся с источником. На самом деле - HoME-X (MR), Part V (MT), 'Notes on motives in the Silmarillion', (i):
Gandalf he [Sauron] did not understand. But certainly he had already become evil, and therefore stupid, enough to imagine that his different behaviour was due simply to weaker intelligence and lack of firm masterful purpose. He was only a rather cleverer Radagast - cleverer, because it is more profitable (more productive of power) to become absorbed in the study of people than of animals.
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Gandalf he [Sauron] did not understand. But certainly he had already become evil, and therefore stupid, enough to imagine that his different behaviour was due simply to weaker intelligence and lack of firm masterful purpose. He was only a rather cleverer Radagast - cleverer, because it is more profitable (more productive of power) to become absorbed in the study of people than of animals.