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Post by Ilúvatar on Jan 22, 2004 10:54:30 GMT -5
Why didn't the Eagles just fly the Ring over Mount Doom and drop it in? They could have been in and out of there so quick Sauron wouldn't have had time to react.
What do you think?
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Post by Isthir - RifCoral on Feb 9, 2004 5:31:31 GMT -5
[glow=black,2,300]I believe that, since they were not Valar, the Eagles would have desired the ring like any other that dwelled in ME, save Tom, and knew that it would not save the world if they took up The One. Just my thoughts once again[/glow]
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Post by Gothmog on Feb 9, 2004 17:58:26 GMT -5
Do you really think Sauron wouldn't notice huge eagels wheeling over mount doom??
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Post by Ilúvatar on Feb 9, 2004 18:08:50 GMT -5
I think Sauron would have noticed but I think they would have been too quick for him for him to do anything about it.
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Post by Boromir on Feb 14, 2004 18:04:20 GMT -5
I honestly think that this is not a question that anyone can figure out with the knowledge we know. I think the only way we could find the real answer is by asking the author.
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Post by Legolas on Feb 16, 2004 9:22:34 GMT -5
what about the friggin' nazgul. if all 9 ganged up on the eagle with the ring, the eagle would go down extremely fast. since they're over mordor, an orc or someone would find the ring, and either he would take it and get killed, giving the ring to sauron or giving it to a ringwraith/sauron and sauron getting it anyway.
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Post by ShadowNinja on Feb 25, 2004 16:49:21 GMT -5
That would be a short book...
They could have just carried Frodo too you know. I mean they have carried Gandalf and all sorts of people before.
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Post by vacin8r on Feb 26, 2004 1:18:57 GMT -5
there are 2 ways to look at this question: 1)within the sory, in which you could argue a number of reasons, such as what effect would the ring have on the eagles and the ease at which they could get it to sauron if they turned, also you could say that since saruman had such control over birds as was given to him by radagast, that he would know of them having the ring and could somehow force them to deliver it onto him. the main point they wanted to make in using frodo and sam, was that sauron had grown powerful enough that if he ever knew where the ring was he could get to it, and an eagle carrying a hobbit over the walls of mordor may have looked a tad suspicious.
2)from a writing standpoint, i always just thought of the eagles as nothing more than a get out of jail free card device for tolkien. he rarely revised his works, and whenever the eagles do appear, it seams its at a time when the heroes had backed themselves into such a corner that there was no other way out then having the eagles save the day. i think he kind of wanted to keep it that way.
-don
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Post by ShadowNinja on Feb 26, 2004 7:19:50 GMT -5
Yah I think you may be right. That sounds reasonable.
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Post by Ilúvatar on Feb 26, 2004 12:04:18 GMT -5
I had never thought of the Ring affecting the Eagles. I'm not sure why, I guess I always thought them as invincible - LOL
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Post by vacin8r on Feb 26, 2004 14:49:26 GMT -5
i would think the lord of the eagles would be very susceptible to the rings power as it is implied that the more power its wielder possesed without the ring, the easier it would be for the ring to corrupt them. -don
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Post by Legolas on Mar 19, 2004 16:18:59 GMT -5
BUT the lord of the eagles didn't have that much real power.
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Post by LOTRfreak on Apr 4, 2004 12:22:12 GMT -5
The eagles rule. If not for them Sam and Frodo would've never left Mount Doom
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Post by Kitoky on Apr 9, 2004 1:55:08 GMT -5
Actually without the Eagles there wouldn't be a Lord of the Rings, and you wouldn't have part of The Hobbit.
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