"Why didn't they just, like, take the Eagles into Mordor?"
"Joe, it wouldn't work. Wouldn't work. Sauron has the NAZGUL."
"But wait wait wait - they couldn't just fly around them?"
"Have you seen the Nazgul, Joe? Huge. They were unbelievable. You know, too, if an Eagle had the One Ring - bam. Now you have a Dark Lord Eagle. Complete and total disaster."