It's one of those holes: as soon as you step into it, you never get out. It sucks, but once mired in the muck, one cannot seem to break clean. I've been thinking about it all day--I woke up with a fever about it last night.Why didn't the eagles just fly Frodo into Mordor?
Think of the ultimate flying Eagle-Diamond: Gandalf at the point of this eagle-spear, full of white light/white heat and Enya song. Legolas is to his right, quivering bow in hand, ready to pierce Nazgul-throat. Aragorn is to his left, re-forged sword in hand, ready to strike! and Frodo and Sam huddle on the King of The Eagles' back in the middle of this deadliest strike force. And Gimli and maybe Radagast the Brown in the back, just rounding things out, whizzing on Cirith Ungol from the heavens.
It just seems easier to me than all that climbing and soot and orc-breath.
read more at your own peril:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/eagles.html
