Why didn't Frodo fly on the eagles to Mordor?

Why didn't Frodo fly on the eagles to Mordor?

the ring becomes heavy

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this is a great point but I assume he would be far too visable and able to be taken out by archers or nazgul

because the eagles were a bunch of niggers that wouldn't have seen destroying the ring as being important enough for them to fly all the way across a continent

The Nazqul "ring wraiths" or whatever theyre called controlled the skies

This is one point, and they say it at the council of Elrond. Riding one of the Eagles into Mordor is exactly as high-profile as marching an army to the Black Gate. You may as well send an engraved announcement.
Furthermore: Gwaihir is a fricking Maia himself, just as powerful - and vulnerable to the Ring's corrupting influence - as Saruman, Sauron, or the Balrog. You don't just give the Ring to someone like that.

Yep.

Because the Eagles don't really give a fuck what people do.
If you have read Tolkien you would know

because that eye would have seen him?

Because the eagles are neutral, they just don't give a fuck what happend in the middle earth, they just do some favor to Gandalf sometimes, but not always.

just read the fucking book
it goes in depth enough to answer these small, calculated questions

>the eagles would be fine with Sauron starting the apocalypse

1. Eagles would've been corrupted by the ring
2. Eagles are stupid as fuck
3. Tolkien made a huge plot hole

they're Eagles, Sauron don't give a fuck about those eagles, Eagles don't give a fuck about Sauron

When gandalf says "fly you fools" before he drops like a sack of spuds, that's what he meant. He was secretly leading them to the eagles, but the fellowship is fucking retarded.

This.
If you read the book you learn that the Eagles, like many other factions of Middle Earth, aren't nearly as concerned with the looming threat as say the Dwarves, Elves, Humans, etc.

They wouldn't risk their lives on such a long shot.

It would have really messed up the story. Save vs. plot device at -50.

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Why doesn't anyone ever complain that the Elves are the ultimate Mary Sues? Or that since Elves are better than Men in every way yet they put the fate of the world in the hands of Men and then concede the world itself to the reign of Men?

aren't the elves supposed to be an allegory for angels?

gandalf is a sex term

People do complain about it, moron. They are bigger morons for complaining though because Tolkien intentionally made them that way.

No. The elves aren't better then men they fail and fall. They are more gifted and so survive their failures with more grace then men do but some of the worse things in the story are ultimately the fault of the elves. The one ring for example.

So people should stop complaining about something that's stupid because the author intended it to be stupid? The book's awesome, he wanted it to suck so we should love the book and avoid the suck.
>chokingonmyownrage.jpg

No that's the Maiar.

but I thought they were demigods

He didn't want it to suck and it didn't suck. There's nothing wrong with the elves being the way they are.

THIS. It's explained in the books.

They're not Mary Sues. The higher they climb, the further they fall, and Elves are a perfect example of that. By the time LotR happens, most of the Elves are already gone from Middle Earth. Read the Silmarillion, they fuck up big-time.

Because the ring is the one reason they're kept alive. If it's destroyed then the age of magic ends and the age of man begins. They're indifferent about the whole situation.

>Eagles didn't care
>Also nazgul
Now the real question is where the FUCK is my Tom Bombadil scene

You have no idea what you're talking about.

>>The Maiar were all the immortal spirits in the world. They varied in power from lesser being like Gandalf to true god like entities like Morgoth.

The real question is.
Why couldn't Harry just find a spell to kill Voldemort instantly?

Would have been a very short movie/journey...thus preventing Hollywood from milking the book/public for millions of dollars.

Tolkien said a couple things regarding this. A) the Nazgul would've killed them
and the most important one, B) it makes for a fucking shit story

the fuck is a mary sue?

This. In a book collecting some of his letters, a fan asked him this back in the day, and he said this precisely. Sauron would have done something to take them out (note the Eagles and Gandalf only got through once Sauron/Nazgul were destroyed) and because there would be no story to tell if it were that simple.

Because voldemort's soul is divided you fucking idiot

Also because the Eagles were pissants. Gwaihir only bore Gandalf a few times because he liked him, but he still was a dick about it. Eagles were proud as fuck, and only intervened when they wanted to, Jackson just fucked this up and used them as a plot device to shorten important narrative (like how he uses the Dead to win the Battle of Pelennor - in the books, Aragorn only uses them to take the corsair ships and that is it - he wins the battle because he has an army of fucking rangers like him with him and the sons of Elrond).

In The Hobbit, the eagles came because they heard what was going on and they wanted to kill orcs. That's it - not to save the day. The same reason Beorn came too. They hated goblins immensely and those goblins had been bothering them in their eerie. And at the end of Return of the King, they came because once again, they wanted to kill some fuckers and then reluctantly let Gandalf ride them to Mt. Doom. Like the ents and Tom Bombadil, there are just some characters in Tolkien's lore who didn't really care much, though they sort of did.

holy shit, just cast levitation, you have top mages with you and what the hell do they do, utter wise parables?

1. The Eagles were really apathetic and wouldn't have bothered.
2. They would've been corrupted by the rings power.
3. They would've been shot down by orcs if they flew too low and if they flew too high, they would be killed by the Nazgul.

I wish people would stop bringing this shit up.

Tell me then

this. midair eagle/dragon battle equals frodo falling to his death.