You've got a point there. Since the bones of birds are hollow, a bird could only carry so much weight before its bones just collapsed. Even if its wingspan was thirty fathoms, its skeleton would have to be hellishly strong to support all that muscle, sinew, etc.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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