Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24732895-20140910035928/@comment-25222572-20140918205434

Paul.rea wrote: Yes! Matrix-Time, which also wasn't explicitly explained on screen, was all just "part of the program" which allowed the audience to suspend disbelief.

They didn't have to stop down and explain that the laws of physics didn't operate - they simply said "there is no spoon."

Those two old guys in LOTR hung in the air pretty good. I don't know the tower of whosewhatsit but I know that little guy with the big feet could have just rode the eagle all the way to that big dragon thing's mountain and saved everybody a whole bunch of time and misery. Now you're mixing the Hobbit and LOTR. Also, how do you think a big bird would have faired against either an actual dragon (Hobbit) or against the Fellbeasts (LOTR)? There ARE reasons as to why a course is not taken (though that doesn't explain why the eagles didn't just take them MOST of the way and save them months of travel).