Destroying The Ring Easier - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

nynnd1 · 03-04-2004, 09:36 AM

WHY NOT, INSTEAD OF RELYING ON A HOBBIT AND A FELLOWSHIP OF MEN, HOBBITS, A WIZARD, AN ELF AND A DWARF DIDN'T gANDALF TRY AND GET THE EAGLES TO FLY OVER AND DROP THE RING IN, SURELY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER AND THE POWER OF THE RING COULD NOT HAVE TOOK THEM INSTANTLY. NYNND1

Hot, crispy nice hobbit · 03-04-2004, 10:04 AM

First, WELCOME TO BARROWDOWNS, nynnd1. Did you peeped in without seeing that "Abandon hope, all ye who enter"?

(By the way, that is true; this place keep you here, whether you will it or not)

Second, you forgot to unlock the Caps Lock.

Third, This topic has been gone over and over with for upteenth times. I am sure you can find a thread like this around if you search for it. In fact, this debate is reopened just recently in a thread. So, check out the graveyard for more interesting stuff.

Now to your question. Eagles have their own business, you know. They are not like the DHL, where you can send a parcel to anywhere at anytime. I am not sure whether the Eagles would agree to help throwing the Ring into Mount Doom because of the risks involved.... yadda, yadda. But I feel sure that by the end of this discussion, you would have read more than enough of these already.

Boromir88 · 03-05-2004, 05:23 AM

First of all, Hot,crispy hobbit, is right eagles can't just be called whenever they want to be to do business. Gandalf doesn't control the eagles Rhadagast is the nature love he's developed a strong relationship with the animals, but he apandoned his task of aiding the inhabitants of Middle Earth and turned to nature.

Second of all what kid of story would this be. Frodo, gets the ring in the shire 3 days later the Eagles come pick him up, in 3 days hte eagles fly over mount doom and frodo drops it in. Yay, the best story I've ever read.

**The Saucepan Man** · 03-05-2004, 07:39 AM

Frodo still wouldn't have been able to throw the Ring in. The Eagle would have had to have dropped Frodo in.

This issue has been covered in a number of other threads. I found a fair few by doing a search.

Here is a good one:

The Great Eagle Mystery

And there has been recent discussion on this subject here too:

Flaws in Lord of the Rings... Yes in the book.

Happy reading!

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-05-2004, 08:31 AM

Welcome to the Downs, nynnd1! You have chosen a very popular topic for discussion - one that has generated several interesting threads before. Since one of those is quite recent, please post there; thanks, Saucepan Man, for providing the links above. (The second one is the most recent, still active discussion.) I'm closing this thread to avoid confusing duplication.

03-04-2004, 09:36 AM	#1
nynnd1 Haunting Spirit Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: england Posts: 64	Destroying The Ring Easier WHY NOT, INSTEAD OF RELYING ON A HOBBIT AND A FELLOWSHIP OF MEN, HOBBITS, A WIZARD, AN ELF AND A DWARF DIDN'T gANDALF TRY AND GET THE EAGLES TO FLY OVER AND DROP THE RING IN, SURELY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER AND THE POWER OF THE RING COULD NOT HAVE TOOK THEM INSTANTLY. NYNND1

03-05-2004, 05:23 AM	#3
Boromir88 Laconic Loreman Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: USA Posts: 7,559	Right First of all, Hot,crispy hobbit, is right eagles can't just be called whenever they want to be to do business. Gandalf doesn't control the eagles Rhadagast is the nature love he's developed a strong relationship with the animals, but he apandoned his task of aiding the inhabitants of Middle Earth and turned to nature. Second of all what kid of story would this be. Frodo, gets the ring in the shire 3 days later the Eagles come pick him up, in 3 days hte eagles fly over mount doom and frodo drops it in. Yay, the best story I've ever read.

03-05-2004, 07:39 AM	#4
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,468	Frodo still wouldn't have been able to throw the Ring in. The Eagle would have had to have dropped Frodo in. This issue has been covered in a number of other threads. I found a fair few by doing a search. Here is a good one: The Great Eagle Mystery And there has been recent discussion on this subject here too: Flaws in Lord of the Rings... Yes in the book. Happy reading! __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

03-05-2004, 08:31 AM	#5
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,645	Welcome to the Downs, nynnd1! You have chosen a very popular topic for discussion - one that has generated several interesting threads before. Since one of those is quite recent, please post there; thanks, Saucepan Man, for providing the links above. (The second one is the most recent, still active discussion.) I'm closing this thread to avoid confusing duplication. __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

03-04-2004, 10:04 AM	#2
Hot, crispy nice hobbit Wight Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Troll's larder Posts: 195	First, WELCOME TO BARROWDOWNS, nynnd1. Did you peeped in without seeing that "Abandon hope, all ye who enter"? (By the way, that is true; this place keep you here, whether you will it or not) Second, you forgot to unlock the Caps Lock. Third, This topic has been gone over and over with for upteenth times. I am sure you can find a thread like this around if you search for it. In fact, this debate is reopened just recently in a thread. So, check out the graveyard for more interesting stuff. Now to your question. Eagles have their own business, you know. They are not like the DHL, where you can send a parcel to anywhere at anytime. I am not sure whether the Eagles would agree to help throwing the Ring into Mount Doom because of the risks involved.... yadda, yadda. But I feel sure that by the end of this discussion, you would have read more than enough of these already.