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Message: <blockquote data-quote="molonel" data-source="post: 3353521" data-attributes="member: 10412">They had no reason to withdraw. Patience? Yeah right. Aragorn drove them away. I'm mostly kidding in this conversation, but in the books, that's how it went down. Jackson got it right. Since I'm sitting at work, I'll let another page monkey give us a shout out.They had to go back and reform because their forms were slain. Then, they were given new mounts.Perhaps.They fell in the water.Nice try, though.Tolkien wrote an interesting yarn. He's like Frank Miller. I mean, c'mon, if a gamer ran Superman, Batman would never have a chance.He was going for story quality rather "fast and easy."Tolkien didn't decide the eagles wouldn't work, because he's the author. If he says they work, they work. He decided to go another route.Or it was just more interesting this way, which is the more likely path.Although at points slogging through the Two Towers, I questioned whether or not it was actually more interesting.As if.They'd have Rings of Feather Falling, and potions of Fly are dirt cheap. With the elves of Rivendell equipping them? Not a chance!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>