Eagles: Heroes without Depth

[The Saucepan Man]

Plus I don't like the idea of a wizzard who Gandalf obviously trusted sitting around doing nothing for the entire War of the Ring.

[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I'd certainly agree with that. Radagast surely had to play some part in defeating Sauron, so why not the link between his friendship with Gandalf and his greater appreciation of the non-humanoid free peoples?

But, I always wondered why the Eagles didn't play a greater role in the struggle against Sauron. After all, didn't they have as much to lose as humans from Sauron's dominion over ME? Or, like the Elves, did they have somewhere else they could go?