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The last thing Bilbo sees in the book is the Eagles, then he gets hit with a rock and knocked out.
They do come, but their impact isn't as much as say, Beorn, who actually kills Bolg, and is on the screen for 5 seconds.
This made me mad in the movie. Beorn was the final deciding factor in the books, not the eagles. The eagles helped a lot, but the orcs were still winning. It took Beorn to break the orc lines and get to Bolg and rescue a mortally wounded Thorin(who with Fili, Kili and I think Dwalin and a few other dwarves too I forget, broke the lines earlier but got overwhelmed by Bolg and his bodyguards and Fili, Kili and Thorin ended up dying because of that) for the heroes to win the battle. Beorn was the straw that broke the camels back, the really big mean straw.