I know that the nitpicking over why the Fellowship didn’t just ride the eagles to fly directly to Mordor has been talked to death, there’s more than enough answers. The Doylist answer is that would stop the whole book from existing, or replace it with a wholly different book all about eagles. The Watsonian answer is that a) the eagles are a noble independent people not a taxi service, b) the quest is a stealth mission and huge massive giant eagles are not stealthy, c) Mordor has air supremacy and the eagles could only fly to Mount Doom after Sauron was defeated and the Nazguls all gone.

Yeah, this is what an elf would mug you with – a Noldor would have made it themselves, probably, but it’d suit Sindar Aesthetic all right, too.

✨ Bookshelf Tour 1-29-25 ✨

you doooo 🤭

Im also kinda working on a shelf. Here it is so far: