Sauron? What's his super power again? Oh yeah, he fucking watches people. Three movies and books about midgets walking someplace when some fruity old sorcerer could have fucking flown them there on giant eagles in about 1/8th the time.
well for the sake of argument, I seem to recall that the bad guys had nasty flying beasts of their own so that wouldn't have been very effective, plus wasn't the whole point that sauron had like 50,000 soldiers so they were trying to be kind of secretive and sneak by him without him noticing.
I can understand why you wouldn't like the films, but I think the plot was pretty consistent.
oh yeah, and also sauron was wrecking all sorts of people at the beginning and he can also turn invisible and only be destroyed by chucking his ring into a volcano. Yeah, a bit fantastic, but no moreso than everything else on this list.
it's just supposed to be fun, don't take it so seriously.