Frodo and Sam stranded on Mount Doom following air traffic control glitch grounding all eagles | NewsThump
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Article written by Nathan Cowley
Frodo and Sam are stuck on the slopes of Mount Doom after a real-world air traffic control meltdown grounds all giant eagle rescue operations indefinitely. Tolkien's most-asked fan question — 'why didn't they just use the eagles?' — has finally been answered by British infrastructure failure.
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SPAG85
Coherent82
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Graded by NewzGrade AI AI on September 22, 2026 at 05:44 PM
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Finally, a reasonable explanation for why the eagles didn't just fly them to Mordor in the first place — NATS strikes again.
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