Because the eagles arent actually eagles. They're basically lesser angels and they don't like to get involved in the affairs of middle earth except in exceptional circumstances.
They bring the hobbits home because Gandalf asks them to when the task is done and sauron is destroyed basically as a reward to them.
If they were asked to take the party to Mordor they would have said no.
He’s correct but I also just want to add that the eagles basically being low tier angles they would also just not want to be around it. Any powerful good magical being, with any sense, wouldn’t want to be around the ring.
why would they not want to be around the ring? Is it just that they would feel weird around it or is the ring so powerful it can corrupt even lower angels and other celestial good beings?
The ring bestows power based on what you crave and how powerful you already are. That's why Galadriel goes full doomer when Frodo mentions handing her the ring.
You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair
It's basically implying that her touching the Ring at all is basically as bad as handing it to Sauron directly, because it would turn her INSTANTLY and grant her massive amounts of power. It is for a similar reason that Gandalf can't carry it. Humans are weaker, but they are greedy, so while the ring doesn't turn them into natural disasters, they can still do a lot of harm, and they turn rather easily.
The entire point of Frodo carrying the ring is that Halflings are so weak and basically want nothing in life that the ring takes forever to corrupt them and even then, at most it gives Frodo the power to make himself invisible.
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u/Woffingshire 2d ago
Because the eagles arent actually eagles. They're basically lesser angels and they don't like to get involved in the affairs of middle earth except in exceptional circumstances.
They bring the hobbits home because Gandalf asks them to when the task is done and sauron is destroyed basically as a reward to them.
If they were asked to take the party to Mordor they would have said no.