Why didn't the eagles fly the ring to Mordor?

Why didn't the eagles fly the ring to Mordor?

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Gandalf secretly planned on taking the fellowship to where the eagles live and having the eagles fly them to Mordor. The eagles lived on the other side of the Misty Mountains but all the routes for crossing them were too dangerous and difficult, and Gandalf (along with his secret plan) ends up falling down a chasm in a battle with the Balrog. Just before falling with the Balrog he tries to surreptitiously tell them the secret plan but was too surreptitious and they didn't understand. When he came back as Gandalf the White he had forgotten many things, including the plan to meet the eagles.

Because cgi eagles are expensive

The Eagles live on a whole other continent.

They would have been shot down

Because if the Eagles flew directly to Mordor, Sauron would've sent every single fucking bat in all of middle earth to blenderfuck them to death before they got one mile.

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The eagles are direct servants to the Valar. The Valar made a pact that they would not interviene with the affairs of Middle Earth unless there was no other choice. The Eagles of course still have free will, but they adhere to an isolationist standpoint. They realized frodo and sam could make it on their own so they didnt help them. They helped the people at the black gate becaused they were royally fucked without their help.

Because who takes visible transportation on a stealth mission?

because it wouldn't have made a good story

nope, they live near mirkwood. They come upon the eyries in the hobbit

All recorded instances of the Eagles being asked for help in both the books and films depict the Eagles obliging.

Using the Eagles has a 100% success rate.

Both the pull of the Ring and the power it bestows are proportional to the power of the being. This is why you see Gandalf get all panicky about the prospect of taking it and Galadriel going full 2spooky over it, and I think it's at least semi-canon that the Ring only made Bilbo, Frodo and Sméagol invisible because it builds upon the natural talents Hobbits have for stealth.

Now consider that the Eagles are Maiar spirits directly serving the leader of the Valar, the gods of the LotR setting, placing them in the same power tier as Sauron himself. Middle Earth would be fucked if the Eagles went anywhere near the Ring. At that point, you may as well just handit directly to Sauron, and it may arguably turn out better, since in that case you have only one Dark Lord.

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Have you forgotten the Nazgul and their winged lizard beasts?

Every time it's a Deus Ex Machina, the only time it ever went South for them was the war with the dragons, but even then they were victorious in the end.

As mentioned above though we don't know how they'd have fared against the wring wraiths.

>Gandalf: "The world is on the brink of devastation, the one ring must be destroyed. I ask you to carry on of our people to mount doom to complete the task."
>Eagle: "We have no stake in this conflict. There is no reason for us to risk ourselves just to assist with mortal affairs to have no bearing on our survival. We will not help you."

Later...

>Gandalf: "Want to help me save my midget friends?"
>Eagle: "You know it nigga."

>fly you fools

what did he mean by this

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Because Mordor was full of orcs with bows and had the Nazgul both backed by the all seeing eye. The eagles could only fly in once the orcs were driven into a panic and the Nazgul were rendered powerless by Sauron's defeat.

I hate this so called hole in the story meme.

well they could have at least flown them some of the way?

Because the enemy had vipers and cobras. Eagles go down pretty quick

hey sauron the ring leavin the shire right?
right cj but they use eagles and travel cross country