 He caused the Earth to take a spherical shape, drowned Númenor, and caused the Undying Lands to be taken "outside the spheres of the earth".When Gandalf died in the fight with the Balrog in "The Fellowship of the Ring", it was beyond the power of the Valar to resurrect him; Eru himself intervened to send Gandalf back.Discussing Frodo Baggins' failure to destroy the Ring in "The Return of the King", Tolkien indicates in Letter 192 that "the One" does intervene actively in the world, pointing to Gandalf's remark to Frodo that "Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and "not" by its maker", and to the eventual destruction of the Ring despite Frodo's failure to complete the task.