What happens when you take the grand unifying design of a man, painstakingly crafted over a lifetime, from overarching themes to linguistic minutia, built from the ground up to create a national mythos for the peoples of England, then hand it over to a patchwork of diverse voices and perspectives with conflicting visions for how things should be and who they should represent?
You end up with a god damn mess. The greatness of LOTR has been pulled from its heights, like a great eagle snatched mid-flight and pulled down into a quagmire of mediocrity by the nameless things below.
Nazgul would have attacked them with Fellbeasts. While the Great Eagles can fight in the air, they very likely can't fight [well] in the air while carrying anyone.
The ringwraiths and sauron may have been able to stop them and perhaps flying the eagles to mordor would have been closer to delivering the ring on a silver platter.
the eagles themselves are not animals, they are servants of a god. interfering in middle earth isn't their purpose. Only after their destruction of smaug were they sent to the lonely mountain. Only after the destruction of the ring did they appear at mt doom to save Frodo and Sam.
What happens when you take the grand unifying design of a man, painstakingly crafted over a lifetime, from overarching themes to linguistic minutia, built from the ground up to create a national mythos for the peoples of England, then hand it over to a patchwork of diverse voices and perspectives with conflicting visions for how things should be and who they should represent?
You end up with a god damn mess. The greatness of LOTR has been pulled from its heights, like a great eagle snatched mid-flight and pulled down into a quagmire of mediocrity by the nameless things below.
Thanks, Amazon. I hate it.
Nazgul would have attacked them with Fellbeasts. While the Great Eagles can fight in the air, they very likely can't fight [well] in the air while carrying anyone.
This video does a good job explaining why.
Monstrous bat creatures
It would ruin the story
The ringwraiths and sauron may have been able to stop them and perhaps flying the eagles to mordor would have been closer to delivering the ring on a silver platter.
the eagles themselves are not animals, they are servants of a god. interfering in middle earth isn't their purpose. Only after their destruction of smaug were they sent to the lonely mountain. Only after the destruction of the ring did they appear at mt doom to save Frodo and Sam.