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Originally Posted by me9996
the valar sent Gandalf back in Sarumans place
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No, not the Valar. Tolkien wrote in a draft of a letter to Rober Murray (4 November, 1954, published as no. 156 in
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien):
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He [Gandalf] was [originally] sent by a mere prudent plan of the angelic Valar or governors; but Authority had taken up this plan and enlarged it, at the moment of its failure. ‘Naked I was sent back—for a brief time, until my task is done’. Sent back by whom, and whence? Not by the ‘gods’ whose business is only with this embodied world and its time; for he passed ‘out of thought and time’.
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