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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7696985" data-attributes="member: 23751">Meanwhile at the Council of Elrond.Gandalf: We need to get to the ring to Mount Doom.  The eye of Sauron is ever watchful and so stealth is required.Anderson of Dale: We can fly there on eagles.Elrond: The eagle idea would doom us all should we undertake it.  The instant they entered Mordor, the Eye would fall upon them and their riders and none would survive the power of Sauron.  He wouldn't even need his Nazgul at that point.Anderson of Dale: It would succeed because eagles!!!!Gandalf:  No.  Not even the eagles are mighty enough to resist the power of Sauron in his home.  They would not get close to Mount Doom before destruction came to all in the FellowshipAnderson of Dale: Because eagles!!!!!!Gandalf: You should leave now.Elrond: Mr. Anderson....you will be escorted by two elves back to the borders of my home.  The wisest of the Maia and the wisest of the elves have to come up with a plan that has a chance, however slim, of working.  Bye now.The rest of the Fellowship: What they said.</blockquote>