Thursday, January 07, 2021

why not use the Eagles to fly the Ring to Mordor?

The YouTube channel Film Theory (which is run by "MatPat," who also runs a few other "Theory" channels, e.g., Food Theory, Game Theory, etc.) has a video about one of the biggest "plot hole" questions from The Lord of the Rings:  why not just use the Eagles to fly the Ring of Power to Mordor to be destroyed?  Wouldn't that have saved everyone a great deal of unnecessary time, effort, and death?  MatPat dismantles this notion, claiming that it would almost be worse than just giving the Ring directly to Sauron:

I like MatPat's various Theory channels, but the lack of a vocative comma in "Fly, you fools!" is driving me fucking nuts.



1 comment:

John Mac said...

That was really good. I hadn't actually heard the Eagle theory before, and as a big fan of Tolkien's work, I'm ashamed to admit I wasn't aware of the near-God status of the Eagles.

Fly! You fools!