Posted: January 10, 2000 at 12:07:37: by Michael Martinez
: Broadly agree, but the eagles were able to fly en masse to the
: lonely mountain with goblin and warg armies everywhere.Ah, but were they using the same path as the goblins and wargs? The Eagles had been keeping an eye on the goblins, but they arrived AFTER the bad guys, so they have an "out" as well. : Admittedly the eagle approach would not work well as story, but
: I have wondered myself about how much easier it would have been
: to have a couple handy so as to avoid Cirith Ungol, perhaps if
: Gandalf had continued with Frodo and Sam, this would have been
: his approach? It really would have been impractical. The Eagles would have had to hunt every day, and once they got beyond the Misty Mountains they would have been subject to scrutiny by Sauron's minions. They did not normally operate in the southern lands. Secrecy was at the heart of the Council's strategy. When Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli were tracking the Orcs across northern Rohan Aragorn and Legolas saw Gwaihir as he was gathering news for Gandalf. If they could spot the Eagle, others should have been able to spot it as well. It's really not a very good plan at all to use the Eagles as carriers.
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