Finally, the ring corrupts the proud much more easily than the humble. A ground-based approach was decided to be much more effective and appropriate.
Sending Frodo on the back of an eagle into Mount Doom would have been effectively air-mailing the ring to Sauron. In addition to this, there are allusions that while Sauron was still in power, the Eagles would have struggled getting to Mount Doom, at least because of the wraiths on their fell-beasts and other dark creatures and powers that Sauron had at his disposal. The Eagle, Gwahir, that rescued Gandalf ( Ian McKellen) from the tower of Saruman ( Christopher Lee) did so as a special service to Gandalf, whom he knew personally (Gandalf had previously saved his life). The Eagles are also very proud creatures, who will not allow themselves to be used as just a means of transportation. This is similar to the Ents, who only participated when they felt they were drawn in by Saruman. The Eagles did not take sides in the War of the Ring until the end, so they would not have assisted Frodo when he started his quest. The book is more elaborate on this point than the film, and Peter Jackson also explains the reason during the audio commentary on the DVD.
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