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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Templetroll" data-source="post: 3358235" data-attributes="member: 2201">I don't know the passage in the trilogy or in the Hobbit but there was something about the pride of the Eagles and the fact that they did not like to be ridden or help those on the ground.The Eagles were not a resource, they were a race of creatures with their own thoughts and part of it was to stay out of the wars of Men and Elves as much as they could.  They were not things to be summoned or a resource to be utilized.  They only showed up the few times they did based on their assessment of the need and decision by them to assist Gandalf and his people.If Gandalf had broached the idea of flying into Mordor early on he would have been rebuffed and they would not have had the help of Eagles ever again.</blockquote>