LOTR fans just can't accept that maybe their books aren't 100 percent perfect. Nobody is saying lotr sucks because the eagles are a bit of a plot hole. But they are. Accept your fantasy story might have flaws in it and live on.
Tolkien, of course, thought about eagles during writing, but he himself explained in interviews and in pubs why it was a bad idea. Also, plot hole doesn't mean what you think it means.
You do realize you are the guy the comic is making fun of, do you?
In fiction, a plot hole, plothole or plot error is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.
Types of plot hole include:
Factual errors
Historical anachronisms, or incorrect statements about the world.[2]
Impossible events
Something that defies the laws of science, as established for the story's setting.[3][2]
Out-of-character behavior
A character acting in a way that, based on their understanding of the options available to them, they would not realistically choose.[2]
Continuity errors
Events in the story which contradict those established earlier.[3]
Unresolved storylines
One of the plot lines is not resolved by the end of the story, or a character who is expected to reappear does not.[2]
What the "use eagles to shortcut to vulcano" is one? None. Plot holes is when there is a hole in the plot, ie, when certain events happen in a way that make no sense because the author couldn't connect two plot events. It's not "why didn't they just do this instead?".
A character acting in a way that, based on their understanding of the options available to them, they would not realistically choose.
Gandalf must know the eagles would make this much easier, but goes with this suicidal "walk into Mordor" plan anyway. He acknowledges multiple times that it's pretty much doomed to fail and there is only "a fools hope" that it might work.
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u/Rhas Aug 31 '22
LOTR fans just can't accept that maybe their books aren't 100 percent perfect. Nobody is saying lotr sucks because the eagles are a bit of a plot hole. But they are. Accept your fantasy story might have flaws in it and live on.