Inquiring minds really want to know why they didn't have one of the ****ing eagles drop it in the lava.
Of course, that would have been a remarkably short and dull story.
Oh G-d...because with the Eye intact the eagles couldn't enter Mordor but after it was destroyed by destroying the Ring they were free to move and don't ask me how Gollum was able to steal the freaking Ring back from Sauron because I don't know...
I feel like such a geek.