Lord of the Rings...
 

...for real?

All Frodo Baggins had to do was jump on the back of a damn eagle and fly to the Mountain of fire and throw the ring in.

It would have taken literally an hour to fly there and back...

Thanks for wasting my damn time J. R. R. Tolkien...

BAHAHAHAHAHHAA! I <3 you Astarothel!

zomg thats some serious wtfpwnage

Gandalf is one of the Maiar, they are only supposed to overlook and protect the people of middle earth. In this case, Gandalf is not supposed to meddle in their affairs, thus why Gandalf trusts the ring with Frodo and doesn't do it himself, the Maiar were sent by the Valar to assist Middle Earth against Sauron, not flat out defeat him.

Serious response is srs.

Ok, maybe not Gandalf, but the eagles...the eagles could have helped him right?

Is this what JRRT is trying to say in that horrible travesty of a jumble of words called the Simarillion?

No, it's implied pretty heavily in TLoTR, and only directly acknowledged in his backstory notes.

And the Silmarillion is a horrible jumbling of editing, not words - for which Christopher Tolkien (and Guy Gavriel Kay, don't forget) get the blame! :p

Did the Silmarillion get changed/edited recently (within the last 15 years or so)? I have a copy from the 1970s and I didn't find it particularly jumbled. It's a hell of a book.