An eagle from the Misty Mountains that helped Gandalf before and during the War of the Ring ; his name means Windlord in Sindarin, and he is said to have been a descendant of Thorondor and the greatest and the swiftest of the Eagles of the North by the end of the Third Age.

Eagles named " Gwaihir " and " Landroval " ( or, in even earlier texts, " Gwaewar " and " Lhandroval ") also appear in J. R. R. Tolkien's manuscripts of The Silmarillion, where they are stated to have been the two vassals of Thorondor who helped to bear Beren and Lúthien from Angband, several thousand years before the War of the Ring.

An eagle who helped to carry Frodo and Sam from Mount Doom, said in The Lord of the Rings to have been the brother of Gwaihir and descendant of Thorondor.

But it seems that Morgoth, Sauron, and their associated Maiar could lose this ability: Morgoth, for example, was unable to heal his burns from the Silmarils or wounds from Fingolfin and Thorondor ; and Sauron lost his ability to assume a fair-seeming form after his physical body was destroyed in the downfall of Númenor.

Thorondor and two other eagles rescued Lúthien and the wounded Beren from the doors of Angband during their Quest of the Silmaril, taking them to Doriath.

For some time Tolkien considered the Eagles as bird-shaped Maiar ; however, later he realised that the statement about Gwaihir and Landroval's descent from Thorondor had already appeared in print in The Lord of the Rings, while the notion of the " Children " of the Valar and Maiar had been rejected by him long before.

* 458-Húrin and Huor are separated from the Folk of Brethil during a battle and are brought to Gondolin by Thorondor.

In several early texts Tolkien wrote that, before moving to Crissaegrim after the death of Fingolfin, the eagles of Thorondor nested upon the peaks of Thangorodrim above Morgoth's fortress of Angband ; Christopher Tolkien assumes that this idea was later abandoned.

Eärendil took part in the battle, riding on Vingilot beside Thorondor and the Eagles.

From the west, Eärendil ' The Blessed ' in his powerfully hallowed Elven airborne ship Vingilot, aided by Thorondor and the great Eagles, dueled with Ancalagon and the dragon fleet for an entire day.

Fingolfin's body was borne away by Thorondor, King of Eagles.

Then Eärendil comes with his ship Vingilótë, along with the Eagles of Thorondor, Lord of Eagles, and there they contest with the dragons in the air, slaying most of them.

In The Silmarillion, Thorondor is said to have been the greatest of them and of all birds, with a wingspan of.

The Eagles were ruled by Thorondor, who dwelt ( apparently with the majority of his folk ) in the Encircling Mountains to the west of Dorthonion.

When the Hidden City of Gondolin was built by Turgon between the Encircling Mountains, the eagles of Thorondor became his allies, bringing him news and keeping spies off the borders.

When the city fell at last, the eagles of Thorondor protected the fugitives, driving away the orcs that ambushed them at Cirith Thoronath, the Eagles ' Cleft north of Gondolin.

In The Silmarillion it is recounted that after the appearance of winged dragons, " all the great birds of heaven " gathered under the leadership of Thorondor to Eärendil, and destroyed the majority of the dragons during a battle in the air.

Shortly afterwards, Thorondor espied Húrin and Huor at the feet of the Mountains, and sent two of his servants to fetch them and bear them to Gondolin, fulfilling thus the intentions of the Vala Ulmo.

While in The Silmarillion the title " Lord of the Eagles " applies to Thorondor, in The Hobbit it evidently has another significance.

The role of Thorondor was expanded in stages, with the successive introduction of the relevant plot elements ; and after the conception of Númenor entered in 1930s, the notion that the eagles were the messengers of Manwë was further elaborated.

Another rejected proposal was that after Beren's death Lúthien would not pass of grief, but would be carried to Valinor by Thorondor who would have been " summoned " by Melian the Maia.

In a sketch for the former, Tolkien projected that it would be " Sorontur " ( Thorondor ) himself that appeared in Númenor to the protagonist of the story.

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