Davem, I have always been intrigued by the "Gandalf ‘beheld with the sight that was given to him" paragraph as well. Maia vision or perhaps a touch of omnipresense? Of particular note for me was the sentence before that paragraph:
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......and there like a figure carven in white he stood in the new sun and looked out.
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The most famous alliterative symbolism rearing its ugly head again.
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He <Gandalf> lifted up his hand, and in the very stroke, the sword of Denethor flew up and left his grasp and fell behind him in the shadows of the house;...
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I wondered why that trick wasn't used on the WK.