The Eagles Are Actors in the Lord of the Rings

In many of the stories, they are kind of the deus ex machina that show up toward the end of very specific moments to kind of swoop in and help out. So for example, manway creates the eagles. And we know that the eagles themselves act, not only in the hobit, but in the lord of the rings. There's lots of justifications for those things. But you can also see that they may have been doing acting according to a will that was greater than the sum of the parts,. All that stuff is there.