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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1225515" data-attributes="member: 198">It's covered in the book. The eagles can't help for the same reason that Gandalf doesn't take Glorfindel in the fellowship. Someone that powerful (or something that obvious, as in the eagles) would simply draw Sauron's attention and he'd squash them as soon as he saw them. Whereas Frodo sneaks in the back way, and by the time Sauron realises he's there, he's already inside Mount Doom. For all their heroism, Gandalf and Aragorn and co. function almost purely as a distraction (and it is specifically to serve that end that Aragorn chooses to go to the gates of Mordor).Unfortunately, as you point out, none of that is touched upon in the movie. We'll have to wait and see whether PJ simply removes the eagles from the last battle.</blockquote>