Frodo wakes up after the eagles rescue him and sam

>frodo wakes up after the eagles rescue him and sam
>wait why didn't you guys just bring us to mount doom in the first place?
>one of the eagles whips out a piece of paper and pencil, folds the paper in half...

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The Lord Of The Rings was the journey the whole time

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.

...and with that, this thread has ended.

What about a catapult?

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1) Flying with the eagles avoids the risk of traveling bandits, enemy forces ambushing them (like the end of Fellowship), running out of food, losing track of their direction, and Frodo succumbing to the ring on the way there, or someone stealing it from him.

2) The eagles could just drop them off near the entrance, wait for him to run in and throw it in, then pick him up and head back

3) Why would having eagles make that any harder? If they didn't have eagles they'd have to fight through the army to get to the top. They could have pulled the distraction strategy while having the eagles stationed near the Mordor border

4) Why would Sauron believe Aragorn had the ring? All he knew was that he had the sword. The last person who had the ring on was Frodo far east of The Shire so Sauron would have known something was up by then.

5) Well it's easier to manage when the trip lasts only a few days rather than months

Give me a break, absolutely none of that was a serious concern. The only risk was Sauron finding out.

And how would you propose giant birds fly "near the entrance" without being noticed?

Because the army would blockade the entrance? They had to go through the door.

Read the book faggot.

Having the ring for a long time didn't matter. What was dangerous wss its pull in proximity to the forge, the source of Sauron's magical energies. It became exponentially stronger the closer it got.

cringe

yeah but the eagles could have avoided them

Avoided what?