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Just who were these Authorities
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The Authorities are the Valar by another name.
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For them to know of the true finding of the Ring, Gandalf must have been involved
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While Gandalf was their servant, they did not need him to inform them of anything.
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I don't think there's any doubt that LotR is hobbit-centric (that's going to get me in trouble with the posters): does this not mean that its narrative will be as parochial and limited as the hobbits themselves?
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Perhaps in a way. However, this does not mean that the text should be treated as biased regarding the events discussed in it (at least as regards the events themselves in the context of the story). In other words, (to borrow an example from later in the story) I mean that we shouldn’t think that Merry did not stab the Witch King just because he was a hobbit and the book was written by hobbits. We should treat that as actually having happened in the story.