Gandalf the White - Page 3

Maerbenn · 04-14-2005, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by me9996

the valar sent Gandalf back in Sarumans place

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’.

Telcontar_Dunedain · 04-14-2005, 11:04 AM

Note also that it say's 'until my task is done' not 'until Saruman's task is done'.

04-14-2005, 11:04 AM	#42
Telcontar_Dunedain Warrior of the House of Hador Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,651	Note also that it say's 'until my task is done' not 'until Saruman's task is done'. __________________ Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230

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