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<blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 3353349" data-attributes="member: 1757">Probably not, actually. All the Beasts and &quot;anti-aircraft&quot; defenses have to do is kill the Eagle(s), leaving the Fellowship on foot in Mordor surrounded by tens of thousands of orcs. Gandalf cannot fight the armies of Mordor by himself, or he simply would have ridden out at the head of the Captains and invaded Mordor.That's not clear, actually. The Eye can probably see Eagles a good deal off; the rationale for a flying creature being as easily able to hide from Sauron's gaze as a sneaking pair of hobbits is pretty thin. While the idea of assembling a massed force of Eagles to distract Sauron's attention is a good one, it's not clear that a) there are all that many Eagles; b) that one could convince them to fly into the face of Mordor's defenses; or c) that they would be distracting enough for Sauron not to move to protect the Ring.All of this, of course, with the additional caveat that without Gollum's presence, all would be lost anyway: Frodo would claim the Ring instead of throwing it into the fire, and he would become an instrument of Sauron's will.Finally, the timing is off anyway. While the Nazgul may have been dispersed, Frodo was also injured and wandering into Shadow; by the time he was healed and ready to journey again, they well might have been mobile again... and right by the side of their master.&quot;Hobbit reserves&quot;? Yeah, right. Bilbo and Frodo are pretty clearly stretched as it is to bear the Ring, and they have unusual strength of will even for hobbits. I can just see Otho Sackville-Baggins trying to resist the temptation to put the Ring on...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ruleslawyer, post: 3353349, member: 1757"] Probably not, actually. All the Beasts and "anti-aircraft" defenses have to do is kill the Eagle(s), leaving the Fellowship on foot in Mordor surrounded by tens of thousands of orcs. Gandalf cannot fight the armies of Mordor by himself, or he simply would have ridden out at the head of the Captains and invaded Mordor. That's not clear, actually. The Eye can probably see Eagles a good deal off; the rationale for a flying creature being as easily able to hide from Sauron's gaze as a sneaking pair of hobbits is pretty thin. While the idea of assembling a massed force of Eagles to distract Sauron's attention is a good one, it's not clear that a) there are all that many Eagles; b) that one could convince them to fly into the face of Mordor's defenses; or c) that they would be distracting enough for Sauron not to move to protect the Ring. All of this, of course, with the additional caveat that without Gollum's presence, all would be lost anyway: Frodo would claim the Ring instead of throwing it into the fire, and he would become an instrument of Sauron's will. Finally, the timing is off anyway. While the Nazgul may have been dispersed, Frodo was also injured and wandering into Shadow; by the time he was healed and ready to journey again, they well might have been mobile again... and right by the side of their master. "Hobbit reserves"? Yeah, right. Bilbo and Frodo are pretty clearly stretched as it is to bear the Ring, and they have unusual strength of will even for hobbits. I can just see Otho Sackville-Baggins trying to resist the temptation to put the Ring on... [/QUOTE]

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