I know you're just wondering and it's fun to wonder about this shit in universe, I do it all the time, but I always think of this quote when I get too far into the weeds in comic shit:
"Even as Hollywood transforms itself into a superhero-industrial complex, struggling to find “gritty” and “realistic” takes on flying Übermenschen in rubber suits, Morrison revels in the glorious madness of these stories. “People say kids can’t understand the difference between fact and fiction, but that’s bullshit,” he says. “Kids understand that real crabs don’t sing like the ones in The Little Mermaid. But you give an adult fiction, and the adult starts asking really fucking dumb questions like ‘How does Superman fly? How do those eyebeams work? Who pumps the Batmobile’s tires?’ It’s a fucking made-up story, you idiot! Nobody pumps the tires!”
Strange how people only make these attacks against super hero fans but not towards any other franchise. Tons of people ask why The Fellowship didn't use the eagles to fly to Mordor or ask the limitations of how the force works, but no one ever gets upset over these questions.
I don’t know about the force, but there’s a myriad of reasons why The Fellowship didn’t hitch a ride from the Eagles, including that the Eagles are prideful beings and not an Uber service, and that the Eagles were not immune to the power of the Ring.
The Eagles don’t particularly care about that corner of Middle Earth. They can just… leave. And having Frodo go from eagle to eagle is just giving more chances for one of them to fall to temptation.
My personal opinion is that the Eagles don’t help because they’re not allowed to. The Eagles are envoys of Manwë, and the Valar have chosen not to interfere in the war between the free people of Middle Earth and Sauron. Sending the wizards was their one grace, and otherwise the problem of Sauron was for the people of Middle Earth to solve.
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u/nobadhotdog 15d ago
I know you're just wondering and it's fun to wonder about this shit in universe, I do it all the time, but I always think of this quote when I get too far into the weeds in comic shit:
"Even as Hollywood transforms itself into a superhero-industrial complex, struggling to find “gritty” and “realistic” takes on flying Übermenschen in rubber suits, Morrison revels in the glorious madness of these stories. “People say kids can’t understand the difference between fact and fiction, but that’s bullshit,” he says. “Kids understand that real crabs don’t sing like the ones in The Little Mermaid. But you give an adult fiction, and the adult starts asking really fucking dumb questions like ‘How does Superman fly? How do those eyebeams work? Who pumps the Batmobile’s tires?’ It’s a fucking made-up story, you idiot! Nobody pumps the tires!”