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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3359410" data-attributes="member: 4937">More likely, Manwe - who has salient divine ability to see everything that happens on Middle Earth - sent them to provide help at the moment of triumph, precisely for the purpose of rescuing the hobbits (whose role as the chosen instruments of Illuvatar would have been clear to one that so well knows the mind of Illuvatar as Manwe).&nbsp; It's also probable that compassionate Varda, whose divine salient ability allows here to hear everything that happens on Middle Earth, had prompted Manwe to be ready to intervene to assist her vassal Olorin (Gandalf) once his great task had been completed.&nbsp; The eagles are Deus ex Machina, and not merely in the literary sense.&nbsp; It's also highly probable that the eagles are Maiar that have taken on a body of flesh out of love of Middle Earth (or at least the decendents of such beings, much like Shelob is a decendent of Ungoliant), and are thus Gandalf's 'cousins' in spirit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3359410, member: 4937"] More likely, Manwe - who has salient divine ability to see everything that happens on Middle Earth - sent them to provide help at the moment of triumph, precisely for the purpose of rescuing the hobbits (whose role as the chosen instruments of Illuvatar would have been clear to one that so well knows the mind of Illuvatar as Manwe). It's also probable that compassionate Varda, whose divine salient ability allows here to hear everything that happens on Middle Earth, had prompted Manwe to be ready to intervene to assist her vassal Olorin (Gandalf) once his great task had been completed. The eagles are Deus ex Machina, and not merely in the literary sense. It's also highly probable that the eagles are Maiar that have taken on a body of flesh out of love of Middle Earth (or at least the decendents of such beings, much like Shelob is a decendent of Ungoliant), and are thus Gandalf's 'cousins' in spirit. [/QUOTE]

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