The Hall of Fire

Seeing as we're in the topic of Gandalf, there's something I always ponder about. What exactly happened to Gandalf when he died? How did he come back stronger? Did he go back to Valinor as a spirit and they then transfered him back to Middle Earth and gave him more power? Or did what?? I think about...

Before this post I had never even known there had been a controversy! Please scirocco could you explain the 2 theories? Thank you.

Very nice vision :) I would just like to comment about something said earlier Why would Gandalf choose Bilbo and not some other hobbit in the Shire? Bilbo can not have been the best choice, could he? He was a soft aristocratic lay-about, with no idea of the true meaning of work . Bilbo was the hobbi...