Eagles: Heroes without Depth - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 01-31-2003, 09:03 AM

Actually, I said that the serve the secret fire. That's my opinion; you see, they are servants of Manwe, who is directly answerable to Eru. I think the secret fire is Eru, or at least that power, or spirit, that goes out from Eru and flows into Middle Earth. Gandalf and the Eagles are, therefore, close allies, both serving the same Secret Fire; it is Gandalf that speaks most often of things meant to be in Middle Earth. "Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, Frodo, and you were meant to have it." I would conjecture that the Eagles are meant to rescue Frodo and Sam at the destruction of Mount Doom, and are meant to come to the aid of the Free Peoples' armies at the Battle of Five Armies and at the Battle before the Gates of Morannon.

01-31-2003, 09:03 AM	#1
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Actually, I said that the serve the secret fire. That's my opinion; you see, they are servants of Manwe, who is directly answerable to Eru. I think the secret fire is Eru, or at least that power, or spirit, that goes out from Eru and flows into Middle Earth. Gandalf and the Eagles are, therefore, close allies, both serving the same Secret Fire; it is Gandalf that speaks most often of things meant to be in Middle Earth. "Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, Frodo, and you were meant to have it." I would conjecture that the Eagles are meant to rescue Frodo and Sam at the destruction of Mount Doom, and are meant to come to the aid of the Free Peoples' armies at the Battle of Five Armies and at the Battle before the Gates of Morannon.