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Tolkien answered this question quite well to an interviewer, although in a somewhat different form. "People would run into me at the pub and ask me why I didn't
by hirundo 4y ago
Tolkien answered this question quite well to an interviewer, although in a somewhat different form. "People would run into me at the pub and ask me why I didn't just have the eagles carry the hobbits to mordor, it would have been so much easier. And I told them the same thing I'll tell you now.
"Shut up."
https://youtu.be/1-Uz0LMbWpI https://youtu.be/1-Uz0LMbWpI
- thaumasiotes 4y agoBut Tolkien also wrote in his correspondence that the eagles were a mistake for that reason. So he seems to have agreed with the criticism.