A/N: Since the no-chat edict, I've summarized all Saruman's conversations with the fangirls. Sorry, but I don't want to be in violation of the new rules.
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Not waiting for a reply from the Haradrim lords, Saruman began to prepare for the arrival of the young women. After several more visits to the 'chat room', Saruman had learned how to create a false persona he called Maia, and followed Wormtongue's advice. (Not that he'd ever tell HIM that) The young women soon accepted 'Maia' as one of them, telling her everything she asked.
The wizard soon realized how ignorant they truly were about what magic could and could not do, although they were an advanced race. They used something called technology to achieve things Saruman had never dreamed, and yet they still wanted to come to Middle Earth. Fools.
He set Grima to work cleaning up two of the cells. After he had captured a few of the maidens, they could work on cleaning up the accommodations for themselves (it was doubtful that Wormtongue would get the rooms tidied up to a woman's idea of clean) and the others to follow.
While Grima cleaned, Saruman opened another of his workrooms. This one was devoted to conversing with extraplanar creatures. Usually he used it to summon, hold, and question imps, daemons, and lesser elementals. Pulling mortal damsels from one of the Prime Material Planes shouldn't be too difficult in comparison, especially not with the resonation from the Seeing Stone to guide him.
What had originally seemed like a massive design flaw was turning out to be very useful. Because the orb could only see into that one dimension, he could use it to pick that single realm out of the thousands that existed, and bring the young women to him.
There were still some difficulties to be ironed out however. The electromagnetic energy that pervaded the settled areas of this other world would interfere with his summoning spell. The first time he had experimented with bringing something across he could feel the magic trying to fight past the fields, only to be disrupted and dissipated.
Saruman had returned to the Seeing Stone, to see if he could somehow coax the maidens away from the electrical fields. He'd originally thought of suggesting some kind of pilgrimage to the wilderness, so they could 'feel closer to the characters'. When he'd suggested it, the girls had begun babbling about how it would be just like all the fan fictions, whatever those were, where the girls went camping and woke up in Middle Earth.
As the discussion progressed, Saruman realized that fan fictions must be what they called their legends and tales. Ever one to use an opportunity whenever one was given, 'Maia' had enthused that she was going to try it. If there were that many stories about it, maybe it could really happen. Many of the girls agreed that they too would go camping 'this weekend'. That was another measure of time that Saruman didn't understand, so he asked them to log in at some point before they left and tell 'her' when they were leaving and where they were going.
Having gained their agreement, Saruman began to prepare in earnest. He should be able to start bringing maidens through the portal in two more risings. Likely he could not bring more than a few over before the lesser magic the wizard now commanded was used up, but it would take weeks for the Haradrim reply to reach him. If he collected too many, he could always trade them to Umbar. The Corsairs had as big an appetite for women as the Haradrim Lords did.
