The scoop on eagles

[Voralphion]

1) I think Yavanna asks for someone to protect the kelvar, because the olvar can fight back and run away, but the kelvar can't

It does but spirits were sent into both

When the Children awake, then the thought of Yavanna will awake also, and it will summon spirits from afar, and they will go among the kelvar and olvar, and some will dwell within and be held in reverence, and their just anger will be feared.

The spirits dwelling in the kelvar becamr the ents, while some of those dwelling in the olvar were the eagles,

... and before the Children awake there shall go forth with wings like the wind the Eagles of the Lord of the West

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2) And even if she had asked, that doesn't make the eagles maiar. The ents aren't maiar either

I never meant to imply that the eagles were maiar, I don't believe that they are, but was simply trying to correct the assertion that they can't be maia soley because their names aren't mentioned among the few maia that are named.