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Maybe we should also consider an other point: Elrond and Círdan how undoubtably would have been the leading intelegenc for any search had just had an example of what happend to anybody who took that ring in his hands.
If we consider a council of the wise after the desater of Gladden Fileds, whom could they trust to search for the Ring and bring it back to them if it was found? As has been pointed out before, to have some chance of success such a search would have required a lot of men or elves. What could they tell them? "We would like to find the dead body of the King because he was such a great hero?" Okay, but that wouldn't help them. Isildur lost the Ring before he was killed and fell into the stream. I ever thought that the Wise from what they found and know (Isildurs gear east of the river, that he had worn the Ring during his flight, the places of the orc-archers west of the river, Isildur himself not returning) guessed that either Isildur lost the Ring in the river or he was killed with the Ring on his finger. To search for the Ring alone seems an hopeless undergoing. It is not even sure ift the ground of the river could be reached by diving in any spout. And even if so, it was a mudy ground. How would you search that? By gropping through it all along the river from were Isildur jumped in through the Gladdenfields? And to search for Isildur if he had worn the Ring still? Well how could you find him? He was invisible still if he had worne the Ring? A dead body invisble und probably underwater at least lying on the ground (so no shadow to see him). A search for that would require a very special force consisting of high-elves only which could see in both worlds at once. How many of this were available?
And than again: What if one of the searchers would have found the Ring? How could they be sure he would not have done the same as Isildur - taken the Ring to be his own? On the other hand, they considered Sauron to be dead. And as long as the Ring was lost, they could use their own Rings to bring healing to terribly hurt world of Middle-Earth with out any risc. They might be acused to be to short sighted or to take the easiest course they had, but that is quiet diffrent from being clueless.
Respectfully
Findegil
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