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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
The other thing of course is that the Eagles appear when Gandalf is about, and both Gandalf and the Eagles are servants of Manwe. Though this is only something we would know by reading the Sil of course
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As someone who holds the Silm in much higher esteem than the LotR I must still kind of respond to this. I'm not sure if the connection still makes the appearance of the Eagles at the most perilous moments the less suspectible to being DeM. And I don't want to bog down with terminology here... DeM, happenstance rescuers, hard earned friends, natural partners to be able to be there in time, whatever. Anyhow we don't have tales of the eagles in a proportion of their critical influence in the important moments. So they are kind of outside things not central to the stories but nicely in place when needed.
I'm not saying they are just cheap tricks, but they seem to be not something that integrally make a difference in to the stories as characters (even if the prof. talks something of them here and there - I have not studied HoME from A-Z), but they tend to have the role of rescuing others from tight spots just out from flash. Compare them to other critical situations in Silm or LotR and I think there is a difference between the eagles and other decisive actors...