By the Power of Grayskull, I have to move this thread to Cafe Society.
Wait… which fantasy world are we in?
No. That would be my prep school’s tapioca.
Yes, sadly it’s degenerated into another serious LOTR thread in spite of my best efforts to keep it pointless!
…ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë ar sindanóriello caita mornië i falmalinnar imbë met, Namárië!
You do realize that there’s no answer in Firiel’s song, ne?
Oh, and of course…does the Balrog have wings?
(bah, someone looked up the elvish before me)
Were you really expecting anything different?
Okay. If cats break their own body weight in glasses, to they get to fly?
Extended version or regular? I have heard much of this is better in extended.
I guess my question doesn’t pass specs with the cool kids…sniff…That’s ok…chin quivering
The great Eagles are an ancient and noble race, descended from the mightiest servants of Manwe. One does lightly not ask favors of them, not even Gandalf. They do favors in their own time, at their own discretion. Examples of their direct interference in the affairs of Middle-Earth are very few and far between.
Hence, no calling on them to ferry anything to Mt. Doom.
Sauron undoubtedly would have noticed a host of eagles flying into his domain. Once the ring was already destroyed, Sauron’s defenses were toast and the eagles could fly into Mordor at will. One doubts whether this would have been comparably feasible before the ring was destroyed. It took something small and pitiful to sneak the ring into Mordor.
Also, what if the eagles, being proud and mighty themselves, could not resist the temptation to snatch the ring for themselves?
That’s the long answer, and the one I prefer.
There there, hdg. I posted a hilarious commentary on this very question last year, and got crickets chirping for my pains.
So, having just reread the book, what are you doing to celebrate Bilbo & Frodo’s birthday this upcoming Sept. 22nd?
I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
Along those lines, is there a linguistic distinction between boy elves and girl elves as there is between boy humans and girl humans (Men/Women)?
They lose the bloody horses in both versions. I was really hoping that there’d be some kind of explanation in the extended ROTK, but no dice.
Grayskull and Middle-Earth are on the same world, merely different continents.
what?
“Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s an invisible eagle!”
“Well, I can’t see it.”
Be pretty funny when it shat on someone.
Nonsense. There’s an Easter egg in the Extended edition DVD that shows Ghan-Buri-Ghan running a valet parking service on the eaves of the Drúadan Forest.
Uh, “no man can hinder me”–see, it’s a joke. Everyone interprets it as “no person can hinder me” but that’s WRONG, don’t ya see. Man != person in LotR, even tho’ that’s the way “everyone” uses the word.
I trust I make myself obscure.*
A big 10 bonus points if you can name that quote…and provide the proper reply.
JRRT stole that joke from Macbeth. When facing his enemy, Macbeth clings to the prophecy that “No man of woman born can harm me!” To which his enemy replies, “Know ye not that I from my mothers womb was untimely ripped?” Meaning that he was delivered by c-section rather than being “Born” in the all-natural sense. He then kills Macbeth.