The Eagles just simply would have been too large, and they wouldn't have been able to physically drop the Ring in the fires of
The eagles can't carry the Fellowship to Mordor because Gandalf can't simply summon a squadron of birds to divebomb Mount Doom. Without a throwaway line or a hung lampshade from Boyens, Jackson, and Walsh, it's reasonable for movie fans to wonder why the Fellowship can't ride eagles to Mordor.
Why didn't the Fellowship of the Ring fly the Eagles to Mordor? To begin with, the Eagles were not simply at the beck and call of Gandalf or whoever to fly whatever mission was asked of them. They were emissaries of Manwe and so not subject to the will of anyone within Middle Earth.
Several reasons: The eagles are not commanded by Gandalf. He healed their king once and so they occasionally do favors for him. They also dislike orcs and other beings of Morgoth.
However, the reason the Ringbearer did not fly to Mordor by Eagle is fairly simple: the purpose of the Fellowship of the Ring and the linchpin of the entire strategy decided on in Rivendell was to destroy the Ring in a mission of secrecy.
However, a specific scene in The Lord of the Rings has led fans to theorize that Frodo and Legolas didn't talk, not because of time, but because the hobbit didn't know Legolas' name (and was too embarrassed to ask).
Not only would their flight above Mount Doom cause a stir in Sauron's forces, but there is no physical way for Gwaihir to drop the One Ring precisely into the Cracks of Doom. Not just into the fires of Mount Doom, you see, but in the exact spot in the mountain where the One Ring was forged.
However, there's always a loophole. Perhaps the Balrog could fly, but it had too much momentum and not enough space to get its wings going. Or Gandalf could have prevented him from flying -- after all, they were fighting as they plummeted through the mountain.
Elrond Didn't Have the Strength to Stop Isildur
He knew that the Ring needed to be destroyed, but actually doing it would have been different. A passage in Unfinished Tales says that Gil-galad, Círdan and Galadriel "failed to find the strength" to destroy their uncorrupted Rings of Power.
Wild fantasies arose in his mind.....in that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped him most...he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden. Sam knows he cannot bear the Ring or destroy it.
What Happened to the Orcs After the War of the One Ring? Without the Ring's power sustaining it anymore, Barad-dûr completely collapsed and Sauron's army fled. The final installment of the film trilogy shows the Orcs either escaping or being swallowed up by the ground beneath them after the war ends.
So, Smaug was NOT the last dragon in Middle-earth. However, he was probably (in Tolkien's mind) the last GREAT dragon in Middle-earth.
Gandalf knew exactly where the Ring was, and who owned it. At any time he could've stepped in to help Bilbo destroy it if he did indeed confirm it was the One Ring. However, Gandalf would also have known how corrupting an influence the Ring can be. So he wouldn't have taken it himself, even if he had known earlier.
Flying directly into a fully-powerful Mordor would have been little better than a suicide mission, even if Frodo destroyed the Ring in the process. That was something that Gandalf simply would not have asked of him.
However, they were afraid of the men of the Vales of Anduin, who shot arrows at the Eagles (including the chief whom Gandalf saved) to keep them from stealing livestock. Therefore, the Eagles took the Company only a short distance.
' It is a testament to the Eagle's friendship and loyalty to Gandalf, that they were willing to fly so close to danger for him, and also to Gandalf's belief and faith in the goodness of people winning out over the evil, that he took with him 3 Eagles, in the hopes that Gollum might still be able to be saved, both from ...
Elrond has only Half-Elf, and he was once given the choice to be counted among Man or Elves. When he chose to be counted as Elven kind, he was then given immortality. Because Arwen is Elrond's daughter and also Half-Elf, she too has the choice to be a mortal woman or an immortal Elf.
After finally having reached the Crack of Doom, Frodo fails the final test and does not destroy the Ring, but falls instead to its evil and takes it for his own.
Galadriel Was Ashamed Sauron Tricked Her
This was the practical reason that Galadriel would keep Halbrand's secret to herself, but it's likely there was an element of pride as well. Before the events of The Rings of Power, she had spent centuries hunting down Sauron to the detriment of her reputation.
Therefore, the only explanation as to why Gandalf doesn't reveal the Balrog's presence to the others earlier in the films, is that it is a plot device used by the writers and the creative team in order to increase the dramatic tension of Frodo's decision.
For more than five millennia, the Balrog hibernated in his deep hiding place at the roots of the mountains in Khazad-dûm. He remained undisturbed throughout the Second Age and most of the Third, before the mithril-miners of dwarf-King Durin VI awoke him in T.A. 1980.
The movies didn't show it, but the Balrog all but defeated Gandalf in a battle of spells. So, the bottom line is that some brutish beast like Smaug (regardless of his size) wouldn't have been a threat to a Balrog. The only thing that could save Smaug would be his wings -- if he flew away in full retreat.
Though someone could start out with good intentions, the Ring would eventually corrupt them. And that is why Gandalf can't touch it. He is afraid that if he did, it would corrupt him and make him just as bad as Sauron since Sauron put so much of himself and his evil into the One Ring.
In The Book of Lost Tales, it is said that Orcs were "bred from the heats and slimes of the earth" through the sorcery of Morgoth. Again, Tolkien later changed this, as Morgoth could not create life on his own. This led to the most popular theory that Orcs were created from corrupted Elves.
They didn't help Gandalf because Gandalf was helping them. When Gandalf said “Fly, you fools” he wasn't suggesting Quantas. The Balrogs were fierce and deadly enemies even of the Maiar, and far beyond the strength of all but a few of the Eldar and more than a match for any of the Kings of Men.