[Overtaxed]

Denethor preferred Saruman to Gandalf in the first place. If memory serves, Ecthelion II, Gandalf and Thorongil were all very chummy and at that time Denethor suspected Gandalf was trying to put Thorongil ahead of him in the Steward sucession. BTW this stuff is in Appendix A under Stewards of Gondor.

[carton253]

I know what I'm going to be reading that as soon as I finish ROTK. Thanks for giving me the details.

Now if I could just slog through the Silmillarion (forgive spelling) Too bad the son isn't the writer the father is.