Eagles vs Hawks; U.K. vs Napolean & U.S.

[Angry Hill Troll]

Benjamin Franklin truly favored the American turkey as our national symbol, regarding the eagle as a bird "of bad moral character".

See how the following rewrite of the description of the summit of Meneltarma in Númenor sounds to you:

No bird ever came there, save only turkeys. If anyone approached the summit, at once three turkeys would appear and alight upon three rocks near to the western edge, but at the times of the Three Prayers they did not descend, remaining in the sky and hovering above the people. They were called the Witnesses of Manwë...

I'm glad Tolkien decided on eagles after all [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]