Why do people ever ask this stupid question? They didn’t ride the eagles because they aren’t stupid and didn’t want to get shot out of the sky and immediately captured.
The actual weakness in the story is this vague “can’t actually use my magic except sometimes lol no further questions” stuff with Gandalf.
Birds can fly over 10km above ground level. Presumably mythical magical eagles could go even higher. Nobody’s shooting them down with a bow or possibly even seeing them till they reach their destination and divebomb the volcano.
Last time the Valar intervened it almost destoyed the world, and from then on they said they wouldn’t intervene. The people of middle earth would have to do it.
Once Sauron was defeated they weren’t intervening in a conflict anymore. Same for Gandalf using just a bit of magic, the Istari were sent to guide, not to use their powers and do it themselves. Gandalf is the only one to cheat and use his magic to help.
Why do people ever ask this stupid question? They didn’t ride the eagles because they aren’t stupid and didn’t want to get shot out of the sky and immediately captured.
The actual weakness in the story is this vague “can’t actually use my magic except sometimes lol no further questions” stuff with Gandalf.
Birds can fly over 10km above ground level. Presumably mythical magical eagles could go even higher. Nobody’s shooting them down with a bow or possibly even seeing them till they reach their destination and divebomb the volcano.
Last time the Valar intervened it almost destoyed the world, and from then on they said they wouldn’t intervene. The people of middle earth would have to do it.
Once Sauron was defeated they weren’t intervening in a conflict anymore. Same for Gandalf using just a bit of magic, the Istari were sent to guide, not to use their powers and do it themselves. Gandalf is the only one to cheat and use his magic to help.