In LOTR why didn't they just send the eagles to throw the ring into Mordor?

In LOTR why didn't they just send the eagles to throw the ring into Mordor?

they're changing their feathers at the time

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Eagles don't have arms

The elves had a trade embargo with the eagles due to the eagles high export tax

doesn't make for a very exciting story

Eagles can't be trusted with such an important task.

Sauron can see them from miles away

If they threw the ring into mordor sauron would just grab it up.

Gandalf didn't trust himself, you think he would trust those feather-backs?

I'd love to see the first two movies continue as per usual. But when Sam and Frodo get to the edge of Mordor, they say "fuck it" and toss the ring over the Black Gate and run off.

You're a fucking moron OP.

Because Sauron has the Nazgul.

because you're viewing the movies from an atheist pov instead of assuming there is a supernatural order in this world which lends its hand at certain times.

What was the eagle's tax policy?

For the same reason the ring couldn't be entrusted to someone like Gandalf.

Mordor had an advanced anti-air system supplied by the Soviet Union

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Why not? Eagles couldn't be corrupted by the ring.

But the real reason is the eagles don't answer to anybody. Every time they helped Gandalf was because he asked them nicely. It was not guaranteed they'd help.

The crazy high landing taxes of Middle Earth made using eagles unsustainable without incurring high national debt, and at the time the Elven Federal Reserve was unwilling to print more money to help the Western people struggle against Mordor, so monetizing that debt would have been impossible.

Because they'd have to pay a 15% eagle tax

>soviet union
>advanced anti-air systems
Mordor couldn't afford American technology?

no, mordor had a trade embargo on American goods

They were afraid of Sauron's punitive foreign business tax policy

That's not how trade wars work

Pretty sure the eagles couldn't afford the levies on the entry tax Sauron had place

After he was defeated, they flew to Mordor

>Eagles couldn't be corrupted by the ring.

t. my ass

nobody will pay $10 for a 5 minute long movie.

Why didn't Sauron just build a wall and make Gondor pay for it?

nope, even though morder had high tariffs and sales taxes to make up for human slave-farmer subsidies combined with an economy stifling capital gains tax with mandatory premium healthcare insurance for all orcs civilian and military, they had to go with 2nd rate equipment

Not at all. They didn't have Fear so they couldn't be corrupted.

But that's what he did. All major infrastructure and fortifications of Mordor were stuff built by Gondor

Gondor dont export any goods into Mordor so getting them to pay would prove difficult.

Where does it say this?

The retconning where Tolkien made Eagles animals that were pet projects instead of Maiar with souls and shit. Since the Ring corrupted the soul, the eagles couldn't be corrupted as they didn't have it. Fear = Soul.

So there aren't any eagles in heaven?

This >Eagles couldn't be corrupted by the ring.

>MFW people read too far into things
>MFW the answer is simple and people try to make it complicated so that they can act smart

Eagles don't have fingers idiots. How could they be corrupted by a ring? Christ you guys are stupid.