>>45104
>why didn't they just fly in with the eagles???
Stupid meme
>Fuking Tom Bombadil
I think he addressed this one acceptably. In short, the Song was not known in full even to the Valar. Many would call that a deus ex machina, but Tolkien developed it so much that I have no problem forgiving him for such oddities or curiosities

>>45113
>Tolkien's naivety
Incorrect. He wanted to write a fantasy tale of good an evil in the style of ancient mythological nordic tales, but more attuned to England, his sensibilities, and later that of this children, since he started writing those tales for himself and then his family. LOTR even started as a continuation of the Hobbit, a children's tale, but then turned much more serious (writing the LOTR was long process, his children were also growing up). He was not naive, he knew well enough what he was doing. This is perfectly clear from his Letters