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How can you guys be so hard on Game of Thrones while you praise Lord of the Rings?

They could have just used the eagles.

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The entire point of the lord of the rings was that the larger war was used to distract Sauron so Frodo and Sam could get to mount doom without being constantly hounded by the ringwraiths/Mordor. The eagles would have been spotted easily

What was his tax policy?

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No they couldn't have dumbass. They make it super clear in the first film that Sauron has spies everywhere and they had to take a dangerous route up the snowy mountains to avoid them and still almost got spotted

If they fly the eagles straight there they fly them right into the wraiths and their own flying lizard things. Literally the only reason the plan worked was because the army was fighting Sauron outside the gates and keeping him distracted, he would see the eagles coming in and have them all shot down

>use eagles
>enter Mordor
>get instantly spotted and destroyed

Why not just use a catapult?

deport all elvish scum to the Undying Lands

seriously, this. It's not hard to realize you had nazguls, the eye and then the whole plot with Pippin being the misdirect as a ring bearer.

based and catapultpilled

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1) Flying the ring to Mordor would have done nothing but save time. Time didn't matter. It wasn't an issue until Aragorn goaded Sauron into launching his attack on Minas Tirith ahead of schedule. Frodo had the ring for decades until Gandalf uncovered its origin. The Fellowship took a month's vacation in Lothlorien halfway through their journey. They took two months to leave Rivendell. It had been about 2,000 years since the wizards arrived in Middle-earth to deal with Sauron to begin with. There was no rush.

2) The ring couldn't simply be dropped into the caldera of Mt. Doom. There's a reason why Frodo didn't just throw it into the first lava flow he came across. The ring couldn't be destroyed by lava outside of the (subterranean) forge. It could only be unmade where it was made. Why? Because magic. But that's how it worked.

3) Sauron had an entire army stationed around Mt. Doom. Until it was sent towards the black gates the entire mountain was protected.

4) The only chance the fellowship had of success rested on the fact that Sauron didn't think that his enemies would attempt to destroy his ring. He believed that no one could overcome the ring's corruption (and was completely correct in thinking so, too). Aragorn tricked Sauron into believing that he had the ring. If Sauron knew that the ring was approaching Mordor, or was not with Aragorn, he could have surmised what Gandalf was planning. A suicidal air raid on his HQ would have been a fairly obvious tipoff that something was going on.

5) The ringbearer would still be susceptable to the ring's influence, as would the eagles themselves since they are sapient.