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RoseCotton
Lorien
Oct 11 2012, 6:33am
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Although perhaps not at his full strength without the ring, Sauron is a formidable enemy with many powerful allies (some powerful individually, others powerful through sheer weight of numbers). The advantage that the 'good guys' have is what Sauron doesn't know: he doesn't know for certain where the ring is (or perhaps even 100% that it's really been found), nor does he have any idea what the good guys' plan is. Even if the eagles were willing, to fly the ring to Mordor to try to drop it into Mount Doom would be a complete reveal of the good guys' hand. Which is fine if the plan worked, but catastrophic if it failed. Once Sauron was aware of precisely where the ring is, he would throw everything he had into the surge to get it, and wouldn't stop until it was recaptured... or until he ran out of Nazgul, orcs and anything/one else he had available. (Incidentally, this is why the low point of PJ's movies for me was the Nazgul discovering that the ring was in Osgiliath in TTT.)
(This post was edited by RoseCotton on Oct 11 2012, 6:37am)
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Just figured out why the "eagle" plan doesn't work
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aruman
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Oct 10 2012, 2:21pm
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The main reason why they couldn't use the eagles is because ...
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DanielLB
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Oct 10 2012, 2:27pm
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Agreed
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aruman
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Oct 10 2012, 2:31pm
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It's never explicitly mentioned, and Tolkien always used the eagles sparingly
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DanielLB
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Oct 10 2012, 2:51pm
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And let's not forget...
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Merovech
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Oct 11 2012, 12:02am
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And also...
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Silverlode
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Oct 11 2012, 3:40am
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Thanks
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aruman
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Oct 11 2012, 7:02am
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Like the ash explanation
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aruman
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Oct 11 2012, 7:05am
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Secrecy
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RoseCotton
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Oct 11 2012, 6:33am
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Excellent point about Osgiliath
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aruman
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Oct 11 2012, 6:53am
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Except that
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FarFromHome
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Oct 11 2012, 9:46am
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Good points
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aruman
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Oct 11 2012, 12:36pm
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Good point.
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sauget.diblosio
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Mar 15 2013, 1:33am
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I don't understand...
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Ereinion Nénharma
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Oct 11 2012, 12:25pm
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Definitely
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aruman
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Oct 11 2012, 12:39pm
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One cannot fly
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Plurmo
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Oct 11 2012, 8:34pm
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Ha Ha...
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sauget.diblosio
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Mar 15 2013, 1:51am
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I think the Winged Nazgul posed too much of a problem
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guitarzankansasfan
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Oct 12 2012, 8:04am
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