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Eagles in Middle-earth

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486: 382:, three Eagles guarded the summit of the holy mountain Meneltarma, appearing whenever anyone approached it, and staying in the sky during the NĂșmenĂłrean "Three Prayers" religious ceremony. The NĂșmenĂłreans called them "the Witnesses of ManwĂ«", believing he had sent them from Aman "to keep watch upon the Holy Mountain and upon all the land". Another eyrie upon the tower of the King's House in the capital Armenelos was always inhabited by a pair of eagles, until the days of Tar-Ancalimon and the coming of Shadow to NĂșmenor. Many eagles lived upon the hills around Sorontil in the north of the island. When the NĂșmenĂłreans began to speak openly against the 642: 2449: 602:, "angelic" spirits that "arrayed" themselves in bodily forms of the incarnates or of animals, and were able to communicate both by thought and speech; and finally animals, mere beasts, unable to speak. For some time Tolkien considered the Eagles as bird-shaped Maiar; however, he realised that the statement about Gwaihir and Landroval's descent from Thorondor had already appeared in print in 767: 606:, while he had long before rejected the notion of their being "Children" of the Valar and Maiar. In the last of his notes on this topic, dated by his son Christopher to the late 1950s, Tolkien decided that the Great Eagles were animals that had been "taught language by the Valar, and raised to a higher level—but they still had no 834:
of the Bible, with its phrases "Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, for the King of glory shall come in". E. L. Risden, making a different connection with Christianity, describes the Eagles' rescue of Frodo and Sam as a "ritual rebirth", and the rescuing bird as
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The Great Eagles appeared in "The Fall of Gondolin", the first tale about Middle-earth that Tolkien wrote in the late 1910s. In Tolkien's early writings, the eagles were distinguished from other birds: common birds could keep aloft only within the lower layer of the space above the Earth, while the
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instance is a complete surprise to the audience, and undesirable as the sudden appearance of the Eagles "takes the audience out of the scene emotionally". Tolkien was aware of this problem, recognising the risky nature of the mechanism; in one of his
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Tolkien faced the question of the Great Eagles' nature with apparent hesitation. In early writings there was no need to define it precisely, since he imagined that, beside the Valar, "many lesser spirits... both great and small" had entered the
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as an eagle. Burns remarks the similarity with Gandalf, who repeatedly escapes by riding on an eagle. She comments that Tolkien's Eagles, like his Dwarves, Dragons, and Trolls, all signal Norse influence on his stories.
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of "all swift birds, strong of wing". Upon their first appearance in the main narrative, it is stated that the Eagles had been "sent forth" to Middle-earth by Manwë, to live in the mountains north of the land of
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Different adaptations of Tolkien's books treated both the nature of the Eagles and their role in the plots with varying level of faithfulness to originals. The first scenario for an animated motion-picture of
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The Eagles are a dangerous 'machine'. I have used them sparingly, and that is the absolute limit of their credibility or usefulness. The alighting of a Great Eagle of the Misty Mountains in the
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Eagles of ManwĂ« could fly "beyond the lights of heaven to the edge of darkness". The eagle-shaped clouds that appeared in NĂșmenor formed one of Tolkien's recurring images of the
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Elves "in extreme cases". The Eagles were ruled by Thorondor, "Lord of the Eagles", and "mightiest of all birds that have ever been". When Turgon built the Hidden City of
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the Hound, in Tolkien's own words, "have been rather lightly adopted from less 'serious' mythologies". The phrase "spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles" in
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proposed to Tolkien in 1957 was turned down because of several cardinal deviations, among which Tolkien's biographer
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comments that the "threat of being eaten is so dominant" that the Hobbit Bilbo, who the Eagle described as being
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from the top of the tower there, and again rescues Gandalf from the top of Celebdil after searching for him at
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Burns notes that Tolkien uses the Eagles three times to save his protagonists: to rescue Bilbo and company in
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War in the North is actually about a group of four characters. The fourth being the giant eagle, Beleram.
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or souls, with the defining characteristic of being able to speak; next were self-incarnates, the
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Shippey writes that this is certainly Biblical, indeed that it is specifically in the style of
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Tolkien carefully avoided direct reference to Christianity, so as not to make the story an
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recorded that "virtually all walking was dispensed with in the story and the
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which provides a more mythical narrative about earlier ages. He invented
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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Tolkien's painting of an eagle on a crag appears in some editions of
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was only cool, as the eagles often hunted their sheep. They rescued
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upon its creation; and such sapient creatures as the Eagles or
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The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
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away. The eagles' watch was redoubled after the coming of
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Scholars have noticed that the Eagles appear as agents of
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Master of Middle-earth: The Achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien
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were transported everywhere on the backs of eagles".
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derives from that stage of writing. After completing
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it is recounted that after the appearance of winged
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(eds.). 1058:, "Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin", and note 25 801:about Frodo and Sam's destruction of the One Ring: 747:is absurd; it also makes the later capture of G by 75: 64: 54: 44: 39: 34: 813:Sing and rejoice, ye people of the Tower of Guard, 751:incredible, and spoils the account of his escape". 280:as "a fundamentally religious and Catholic work", 1253: 1251: 1249: 1156:, "The Ring Goes South"; "A Journey in the Dark" 456:, while Gwaihir, Landroval, and Meneldor rescue 803: 741: 398:, a colony of Eagles lived in the north of the 1513: 1511: 1404:, Letter 142 to Robert Murray, 2 December 1953 4521: 2266: 1621:Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Taxa 1364: 1362: 531:The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs 8: 6241:Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings 726:. 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The Tolkien scholar 666: 554:The Notion Club Papers 502: 450:Battle of the Morannon 68:Encircling Mountains, 6269:Tolkien's Legendarium 6013:The Road Goes Ever On 5955:The Lord of the Rings 5940:The Lord of the Rings 5816:A Map of Middle-earth 5559:Death and immortality 5362:Red Book of Westmarch 4875:The War of the Jewels 4810:The Lays of Beleriand 4731:The Children of HĂșrin 4626:The Council of Elrond 4605:The Lord of the Rings 3812:The Lord of the Rings 3776:The Lord of the Rings 3756:The Lord of the Rings 3744:The Lord of the Rings 3697:The Lord of the Rings 3610:A Map of Middle-earth 3511:The Children of HĂșrin 3469:The Road Goes Ever On 2613:Death and immortality 2563:The Road Goes Ever On 2540:A Elbereth Gilthoniel 2358:The Council of Elrond 2303:The Lord of the Rings 2283:The Lord of the Rings 2229:The War of the Jewels 1945:The Lord of the Rings 1913:The Lord of the Rings 1881:The Lord of the Rings 936:The Council of Elrond 874:The Lord of the Rings 850:The Lord of the Rings 791:The Lord of the Rings 769: 760:Further information: 644: 613:The Tolkien scholars 604:The Lord of the Rings 586:The Lord of the Rings 488: 440:, rescues the wizard 423:The Lord of the Rings 278:The Lord of the Rings 239:The Lord of the Rings 193:Further information: 143:The Lord of the Rings 6317:Middle-earth animals 6048:At Dawn in Rivendell 6041:A Night in Rivendell 6028:The Tolkien Ensemble 5862:Brothers Hildebrandt 5384:Two Trees of Valinor 4747:The Fall of Gondolin 4061:Journey to Rivendell 3768:Hordes of the Things 3532:The Fall of Gondolin 3220:Watcher in the Water 3188:Witch-king of Angmar 2385:List of translations 1847:The Annotated Hobbit 1587:"Larry with Gwaihir" 1328:, "Quendi and Eldar" 1168:, "The White Rider" 631:rather like a rabbit 472:had been destroyed. 224:University of Oxford 130:and the accounts of 18:Eagle (Middle-earth) 5552:Round World dilemma 5104:EĂ€rendil and Elwing 4757:The Fall of NĂșmenor 4082:War in Middle Earth 4028:The Hunt for Gollum 3582:The Last Ringbearer 2868:Narrative structure 2863:Impression of depth 2480:Company of the Ring 2224:Christopher Tolkien 2192:Christopher Tolkien 2160:Christopher Tolkien 2128:Christopher Tolkien 2096:Christopher Tolkien 2064:Christopher Tolkien 2032:Christopher Tolkien 2002:Christopher Tolkien 1970:Christopher Tolkien 1842:Douglas A. 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Others have seen 6312:Middle-earth races 6171:A Question of Time 5973:The Rings of Power 5892:Alexander Korotich 5689:Sound and language 5569:Dreams and visions 4325:War of Three Peaks 4002:The Rings of Power 3936:Hobbiton Movie Set 3900:Concerning Hobbits 3784:Der Herr der Ringe 3717:Misty Mountain Hop 3574:Bored of the Rings 3398:Phial of Galadriel 2728:Sound and language 2623:Dreams and visions 2593:Addiction to power 1854:(published 2002). 1818:(Third ed.). 1428:, pp. 84, 91. 1132:, "Queer Lodgings" 854:Humphrey Carpenter 832:King James Version 787: 756:Biblical messenger 667: 519:Archibald Thorburn 503: 499:Archibald Thorburn 402:, as described in 394:By the end of the 350:at the end of the 326:, to "watch upon" 218:, specialising in 216:Germanic languages 65:Base of operations 6299: 6298: 6248:A Tolkien Compass 6164:Picturing Tolkien 6150:Interrupted Music 6119: 6118: 6055:Leaving Rivendell 5824: 5823: 5810:Journeys of Frodo 5664:Old Straight Road 5654:Naming of weapons 5397: 5396: 5144:LĂșthien and Beren 4933: 4932: 4915:Carl F. 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Index

Eagle (Middle-earth)
First Age
Middle-earth
Misty Mountains
Thorondor
Gwaihir
J. R. R. Tolkien
Middle-earth
eagles
eucatastrophe
deus ex machina
The Silmarillion
NĂșmenor
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins
like a rabbit
Marjorie Burns
Gandalf
Odin
Norse mythology
Biblical echoes
Faramir
Psalm 24
J. R. R. Tolkien
Middle-earth
J. R. R. Tolkien's influences
J. R. R. Tolkien
philologist

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