There’s also the issue of anti-air defense in general. You can see those eagles from miles away.
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Lioffproxy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
This is what I was waiting for. You know the theory of the eagles and Tom bombadil having the power to save everyone and not using it? What if the reason they didn’t is because they can’t. As in when they enter mordor they lose their power. Whereas the hobbits were removed from the magical doings of the world and therefore somewhat immune. Even galaxriel was temtpted by the ring. Bobmbadil probably only has power in his forest and the eagles only showed up after sauron’s defeat but the eagles were on the spot right quick. Meaning they had to be close by. Which means they probably intended to be there and were waiting for wards to drop so they could help. Maybe.
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
ulterno@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Yeah, and the AA capabilities of Saruman would mean that even a highly manoeuvrable hypersonic cruise missile would have pretty low chances to get past, while the Sauron’s eye seems like it could mess with onboard electronics.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
My theory about Bombadil is that he was Tolkien’s avatar in Middle Earth. Like, “I’m the one writing this story, I created this world, I’m more powerful than the gods of this realm, but if I solve all your problems right now then there wouldn’t be a story so I’m not going to do that.”