Let's Say the Fellowship DID Fly on Eagles to Mordor Successfully. Here's Why It Still Wouldn't Work.

Thoughts on the age-old Lord of the Rings debate; why it still would fail.

We’ve all heard the question asked, “Why didn’t they just take the eagles to Mordor in the first place?” Admittedly, I asked the same question when I first watched The Return of the King on the big screen as a fourth-grade kid. It made so much sense; virtually as soon as the Ring is destroyed, Frodo and Sam run out to a rock, say a few words, and the eagles conveniently arrive to take them all the way back to Rivendell. Needless to say, people have been asking this same question for decades.

Without going into detail and debunking all the theories and squashing the question once and for all (if one could do so), let’s say the Ring DID make it to Mordor by a ringbearer on the back of an eagle.