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By lust for knowledge. He wanted to know how the rings worked and how to make his own. He wanted to know secrets and used the Palantir to find them out, even though it was known Sauron had captured a Palantir. His thoughts and knowledge were thus corrupted and controlled by Sauron. etc.

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