My doctoral thesis was on precisely the question of what role the Great Eagles could have played before and during the War of the Ring to deliver the One Ring t

My doctoral thesis was on precisely the question of what role the Great Eagles could have played before and during the War of the Ring to deliver the One Ring to Mordor. It's not simple enough to say they were great beings who would have been corrupted by the ring, or they were not interested in the power of the ring, or even that the story would have ended in ten minutes and therefore they couldn't do it. There is a lot of research and discussion[1][2][3][4][5][6] of this open question. [1]: http://www.sean-crist.com/personal/pages/eagles/index.html http://www.sean-crist.com/personal/pages/eagles/index.html [2]: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Great_Eagles https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Great_Eagles [3]: https://www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-rings/22432394/eagles-lotr-plot-hole-mordor https://www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-rings/22432394/eagles-lo... [4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/6nysuy/lotr_classic_question_solved_why_did_the_eagles/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/6nysuy/lotr_cl... [5]: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2333/why-didnt-gandalf-or-frodo-fly-to-mount-doom https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2333/why-didnt-gan... [6]: https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-the-Eagles-fly-the-Ringbearer-partway-to-Mordor-Wouldnt-that-have-shaved-some-time-off-the-journey https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-the-Eagles-fly-the-Ringbeare...