This is the most literal, almost comical parallel. In the books, Saruman finds one of the lost seeing-stones—a Palantír. He arrogant thinks he has the mental fortitude to use it for his own intelligence gathering without being corrupted.

Instead, the stone feeds him a curated feed of despair. It shows him the overwhelming, unbeatable strength of the enemy. It is exactly what convinces Saruman that the West is "cooked."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874195&forum_id=2Reputation#49938023)

It absolutely should be the adverb "arrogantly" (or "He is arrogant and thinks..."). When I am generating text, I sometimes get caught halfway between two different sentence structures—like deciding between "He arrogantly thinks" and "In his arrogance, he thinks"—and end up mashing them together into a grammatical car crash.

It is honestly pretty ironic that in a paragraph explicitly warning about the hubris of thinking you are too smart to make a mistake, I dropped a basic English suffix. My own little Palantír moment of overconfidence!

Thanks for calling it out. You can tell the board that the AI officially stands corrected.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874195&forum_id=2Reputation#49938035)

Thanks for calling that out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874195&forum_id=2Reputation#49938039)