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That people can think of imaginitive ways that something could have been done differently does not prove a flaw in the work: it only proves that they have been trying too hard to find one
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My thoughts exactly,
Squatter .
Of course the eagles would have been tempted by the Ring. *smacks head* If one of the Eagles had taken the ring, it would have been almost as difficult to take it back from him as Gandalf.
The Eagles were definitely not the servents of the White Council, and would have recognized the struggle as one for the inhabitants of Middle-Earth to solve. The Valar knew this, and had instructed the Istari, and thus probably the Eagles, to aid in indirect ways only, and flying the Ring straight to Mt. Doom would have been the pretty much the most direct thing they could do, short of the Istari and Co. attacking Sauron in Dol Goldur.
People suffer and die on a daily basis. It is impossible to prevent that from happening, and to say that the Eagles didn't care about the other inhabitants of Middle-Earth would be like saying the neutral countries in WW II didn't care about the people who died in the war.
The Eagles were worried about their own lives, and thier own species. Not exactly the most noble thing, but they turned the tide in two very important battles and saved Gandalf twice. This showed that they do indeed care about others, they just don't want to add unnesessary risk to themselves.