Gwaihir in the Hobbit?

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Gwaihir in the Hobbit?

For those curious, the exact quote from the Annotated Hobbit, page 123, is:

&quot;Many Tolkien commentators have been tempted to equate the Lord of the Eagles in The Hobbit with Gwaihir, the Windlord, the eagle who rescues Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings. The evidence, however, is inconclusive, and one is left with the thought that if Tolkien had intended them to be the same, he would most likely have stated it.&quot;

I had assumed that Gwaihir and the LotE were the same, but I can't help agreeing with annotator Douglas Anderson that Tolkien would probably have mentioned it. For example, the Elvenking of the Hobbit is clearly stated to be the same person as Thranduil, but no such claim is made about Gwaihir/LotE.


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