Why Not Fly The Eagles to Mordor | Why Frodo couldn't fly to Mount Doom

Today we discover the many reasons why the Fellowship could not use the Eagles to help get to Mordor. We look deeply into the evidence to answer the question: Why the Eagles didn't just fly Frodo to Mount Doom?

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[thefench]

Of course the Eagles have been discussed by bigger and older Lotr Channels, but you managed a new argument with pollution. Well done.

[josephhoskins]

I have to say this is probably the best video about this topic I've seen thus far. Really well done. Congrats.

[markusrobinson]

Very compelling analysis! Naively I'd ascribed to the "just fly the eagles" thesis but was intrigued by your query. Thanks! well done.

[cerberus]

This was brilliant. The pollution theory was a stroke of genius as well as how they couldn't fight if their talons were holding members of the Company. But I completely disagree with the idea that Mordor was as full of fell flying beasts as a chicken coop. I seem to remember in ROTK that it had been one brood, apt to evil, that Sauron had somehow come across.

[Drew-uvwi]

You make a strong case but there's a few things.
First, if eagles were so scared of arrows, they wouldn't have attacked a goblin army and I have a hard time believing an arrow can take down something as big as a lear jet. Feathers make great armor according to that animal tier list channel. I think they were gaslighting gandalf. These things are middle earth royalty. Elves are peasants compared to them. It's like me asking King Charles to do errands. He's going to give me a polite excuse that really means, 'don't hold your breath.' But that's my head cannon so whatever.

Second, these things belong to middle earth Zeus. They're not big birds. They beat up dragons. Big ones. And didn't Shadowfax magically appear soon after Gandalf got dropped off? Coincidence? I think not. Shadowfax was a faster ride and Gandalf needed speed. The Eagle knew that and wouldn't just drop Gandalf off in a big field. So I think the eagles are a bit more 'activist' than you give them credit.

I think they didn't want the eagles to take the ringbearer for the same reason they didn't want to give the ring to Galadriel. Because we'd get DARK LORD EAGLE. A Megadeth album cover if ever I heard it. I think we've discussed this before. I believe that the most correct answer, and the only true deal breaker for Elrond's council begins at minute 10. Great video as always.

[spiffygonzales]

Why wouldn't flying the ring to mordor have worked? Well there's these things we call arrows...

[brianofphobos]

No, I cant agree. The "fell beasts" you speak of are not described at all by Tolkien. Only the mount of the witch king is described and that beast was unique. There is no reason to think the steeds of the Nazgul would be anything like a match for the eagles. The eagles certainly had no reluctance to attack them in the battle before the black gates.