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After rescuing the group for the first time in The Hobbit, the eagle king basically said 'look, we're the superior beings here, and we'll only help you for as long as it suits our whims and not a second more, so don't treat us as your personal taxi service.' Even considering their respect for Gandalf, they probably would've told him to go fuck himself if he'd tried to dump such a grave responsibility on them.