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Originally Posted by The Siege of Gondor, RotK
Ever they circled the City, like vultures that expect their fill of doomed men's flesh. Out of sight and shot they flew, and yet were ever present, and their deadly voices rent the air.
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In my opinion, the eagles may have acted as a powerful deterrence against these maneuvers, moving at the same safe distance from ordinary weapons - which would have probably kept the nazgul at a longer distance, thus diminishing their direct effect and this sort of local air superiority would have been a strong, positive, moral factor for the defenders. If I were to make a comparison before battles, sort of speaking, their role at the last battle would not have made much of a difference (and less than at Minas Tirith), seeing that that entire military mission was doomed from the start, less the hobbits prevailed. By and large, and strictly in
military terms, the chances of success of the Minas Tirith battle were far higher than that of Morannon, and the eagles would have meant more at the former than at the latter.