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Lord of the rings
“You know, I have these amazing birds, and we could use them to fly straight to the end of this trilogy.“
Pretty sure the whole reasoning behind the eagles not taking the ring to Mt doom was because of the nazgul. That's why Gandalf had the whole Hobbits sneak into Mordor plan.
Yeah, not understanding that is a consequence of people not reading the source material, because Tolkien definitely explains exactly why the eagles couldn't do that.
On the other hand, I think it's a valid criticism of the movies that, for all the amazing things he did in that trilogy, Peter Jackson failed to explain something minor that turned out to be a lingering issue for some segment of the wider audience that would consume that adaptation.
As an absurdly fervent Tolkien fan, people bringing up the Eagles spikes my blood pressure in a way that cannot be good in the long run.
Can confirm. Didn’t read the books, so here we are.
And get shot out of the sky, hand-delivering the Ring to Sauron.
That would be an interesting start for a completely different saga.
“Ok, so that plan didn’t work. Like, not even a little bit. Now the whole world is on fire, thanks to our genius shortcut. Any plans how we could fix that?“
*begin construction of a large cartoony catapult*
In addition to the flying Nazgûl and what not, the ring could corrupt the proud eagle. They'd just fly off with it and then you have another problem.
Like somehow picking the new ruler of Numenor. Such a weird thing.
Plus, nobody tells a Middle Earth eagle what to do.