"That I should say is what the Authority wished, as a set-off to Saruman. The 'wizards', as such, had failed; or if you like : the crisi had become too grave and needed an enhancement of power. So Gandalf sacrificed himself, was accepted, and enhanced, and returned. 'Yes, that was the name, I was Gandalf'. Of course he remains similar in personality and idiosyncrasy, but both his wisdom and power are much greater. When he speaks he commands attention; the old Gandalf could not have dealt so with Theoden, nor with Saruman. He is still under the obligation of concealing his power and of teaching rather than forcing or dominating wills, but where the physical powers of the Enemy are too great for the good will of the opposers to be effective he can act in emergency as an 'angel' - no more violenly than the release of St Peter from prison.[...] In the end before he departs for ever he sums himself up: 'I was the enemy of Sauron'. He might have added : 'for that purpose I was sent to Middle-earth'. [...] He was 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 whith this embodied world and its time; for he passed 'out of thought and time'. Naked is alas! unclear. It was meant just litteraly, 'unclothed like a child' (not desincarnate), and so ready to receive the white robes of the highest. Galadriels power is not divine, and his healing in Lorien is meant to be no more than physical healing and refreshment
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