🦅Eagles & 🧝Arwen

[jettenazas]

Why was it that Gandalf did not ask for the help of giant eagles since the beginning? And, did Arwyn become a mortal after her marriage to Aragorn?

 

[fadhatter]

why doesnt god come down and clean up all the pain and human suffering??? aint gonna be a good story would it?

Arwen, like all Elrond's folk, was given the choice to remain immortal as an elf or become a mortal as a human.

Tolkien was racist all round To be tampered with and sullied by a man, Arwen couldnt remain immortal

A bit of that Aryan race mentality methinks

 

[Arvedui]

Just to edit fadhatter's reply a little:
Not all of Elrond's folk were given that choice, only his children:
To leave Middle-earth with him and choose life among the Firstborn, or remain in Middle-earth as mortals. They could not choose to stay as Elves.

A rather intriguing choice, as long as Elrond stayed in Middle-earth, his children could stay as Elves (Arwen was after all quite old), but the moment Elrond left, they had to choose. And we still don't know what became of his sons.

When it comes to the Eagles, the reason for not using them are multiple:
- First of all, it would have been a very short book.
- Secondly, overcoming Sauron was a task that the free peoples of Middle-earth had to feel that they had done by themselves afterwards. After all, from the Fourth Age, the dominion of Men began, and they had to start that dominion with the belief that they were capable of overcoming evil.
- Third: Tolkien once stated that the Eagles should not be used too often. They were an instrument of Manwë, and meant to be his messengers and his eyes and ears in Middle-earth. Not his fighting instruments.

 

[fadhatter]

well once the ONE was destroyed, so too were the other rings. Galadriel has the ring of preservation, so much of the elvish kingdoms would have withered, and would not have been able to sustain a race with different needs.