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02-13-2004, 08:53 AM | #1 | |
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A Hunting Eagle???
Hiya! I've been chugging along in my thorough re-reading of LOTR, and taking thorough notes for my thesis. I stumbled across a passage, and I'm not sure it holds any significance, but it would seem to me that it may.
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02-13-2004, 10:30 AM | #2 |
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It's my assumption that the eagle was maybe hunting for the others. Like a lioness in a pride of lions. Maybe his job was to bring back a good quantity of food for the others or maybe that's wrong completely and he was scouting to see the activities of Mordor.
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02-13-2004, 10:43 AM | #3 | |
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02-13-2004, 12:03 PM | #4 |
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No.... definitely not. The Eagles would be the last race to serve Sauron, since they are directly "affiliated" with Manwë. The Eagle could have just been hunting for food. After all, they need to eat too!
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02-13-2004, 03:04 PM | #5 |
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An eagle hunting evil things. They did that sometimes back then.
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02-13-2004, 03:14 PM | #6 | |
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02-13-2004, 06:26 PM | #7 | |
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02-13-2004, 06:38 PM | #8 | |
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Well, eagles are too noble to be spies by definition. I believe he was a scout. When Legolas says..
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02-14-2004, 02:49 PM | #9 |
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Well, yeah, that's kinda what I meant.
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02-14-2004, 03:10 PM | #10 | |
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02-15-2004, 01:08 PM | #11 | |
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Ah-ha! I found it! I think I skimmed over it when I was looking ahead to find out what the eagle was supposed to be: (all bold emphasis is mine)
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