Tolkien just read the Red Book of the Westmarch and other ancient scrolls and off them made new books [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]. He was an outsider.
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'You?' cried Frodo.
'Yes, I, Gandalf the Grey,' said the wizard solemnly. 'There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.'
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