Mum and I just had a very in depth (very random) discussion about why the Eagles should have taken Frodo straight to Mt. Doom instead of everyone going on a long quest when they could have just spent the year in a pub, drinking and singing and awaiting the Dragonborn. Oh wait...wrong fandom, uuuuuuuuummmmmm....Hmm.
Well, the Eagle bit would have still worked.
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didn't Tolkien get a lot of letters asking that during his lifetime? can't remember exactly but I think he explained it as the eagles were not interested in helping because it was a problem of humans, orcs, elves and so on and not theirs. but they definitely helped at the end anyway... I dunno, maybe Gandalf sweet-talked them into it.