Gandalf receives one of the Elves' three Rings of Power in The Lord of the Rings, but as the wizards' leader, why wasn't it given to Saruman?

In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings books (and the films that followed), only one ring was the main focus of the entire trilogy. The Dark Lord Sauron forged a master ring—the “One to Rule Them ...

“One Ring to rule them all. One Ring to find them. One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”The words Gandalf utters in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring prove the ...