Eagle's Rock-Ledge

The Eagle's rock-ledge was a place on the rocky walls of the Misty Mountains, where the Great Eagles lived. It was near the glade where the company lead by Thorin nearly got burned alive by orcs.

History
It is only mentioned heavily in The Hobbit, when the Wargs attack the company of Dwarves, Bilbo, and Gandalf. The company retreats into five fir-trees, and Gandalf lights pinecones in multicoloured fire and throws them at the wolves. At this point the orcs go and use this fire that Gandalf made to destroy the wolves and uses it to start burning down the trees, and places tinder below them. Eventually Gandalf's tree and the other five trees catch fire, and just before jumping to his end and probably killing many orcs, Gandalf and the company are taken into the eagle's talons and lifted up to the rock-ledge. Bilbo has to hold onto Dwalin's legs, because there aren't enough eagles for everyone. They are later deposited into an eagle's nest, or eyrie, where they wait until the eagles come back to bring them to their main ledge. Bilbo this time gets a more personal ride. After this the eagles cook up rabbit and serve that.

Despite being uncomfortable on the eyrie, party due to rocky and brancy eyries and partly due to the narrowness and the height of the eyrie (Bilbo is afraid of heights), Bilbo falls asleep very fast after the meal, dreaming of a kettle boiling in his hobbit-hole in the Shire. When he awakes, he gets cold rabbit for breakfast, and then all the company rides on the back of the eagles to the Carrock, where Beorn picks them up.

Description
It probably looks like a regular cliff with ledges on it, and eyries perched on these ledges.

Access
The only access to the ledge was by flying, and the only access from the ledge was by flying or by jumping down from the ledge onto the ground far below.

Quotes
"Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" Bilbo Baggins

"No you don't because the bacon knows it will be back in the pan sooner or later and it's hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks." Dori

"O no! Not a bit like storks -- forks I mean" Bilbo Baggins

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