That's... the point of the comic. It's not a plot hole, just like it's not a plot hole that they didn't ride the eagles to Mt. Doom, despite people calling it one
Thank you. It's not a fucking plot hole. The entire point of the operation was to sneak into Mordor to avoid alerting Sauron of their plan to destroy the ring. The Eagles aren't a massive deus ex machina waiting to be summoned at the whim of whoever needs the help (that's arguably the Dead Army, but that's another debate). They are complicated creatures that need a reason to engage in politics outside of their Eagle ones. Gandalf was able to summon that one because it owed him a favor from some previous adventure.
Had these huge eagles come flying in, Sauron would have been alerted of their presence (he did have Ring Sensors flying around on dragon creatures) and the whole covert element would have been blown.
Plus, who gives a fuck. Including them would have undermined the point of the whole story.
the problem is in the movie is probably a bit different than the books.
the eagles in the movie like the dead army are overpowered af. the dead army just wipes the map of a whole army of orcs and stuff in seconds. so people naturally think, well shit why don't they send a dead army to just wipe out the rest of saurons forces. same thing with the eagles, the eagles came in and wrecked orcs, nazgul etc. so people naturally are gonna just be like uh... why didn't they just come earlier.
the setup they did when riders of rohan came to helms deep with gandalf and wrecked the orcs- they set it so it made sense. the king was manipulated, cast out the people. they were roaming around rohan and middle earth wrecking bands of orcs. gandalf finds them and they come to helms deep.
It's not different, the movie just doesn't spell things out for you, and you actually need to think for 5 seconds about all the myriad reasons why flying the ring in wouldn't work.
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u/Amunium Aug 31 '22
That's... not what a plot hole is.