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Originally Posted by Boromir88

I wanted to point out something that Essex said...

If you look at this film shot, it appears Jackson depicts it exactly as that. Isildur jumps in the water and is probably shot while doing it, or in the water?



I love this picture-shot, and I think it depicts what Tolkien describes. Isildur
jumped into the water after the Ring, and the orcs shot him then...

Sorry, but your link didn't work for me. Anyway, that must be an omen, as I would still disagree. I would not say that "Isildur jumped into the water after the Ring," as this implies that the Ring hits the water first, and he goes in after it. In the movie Isildur intends on going into the water. The Ring falls off when he's swimming (probably the need to open/cup his hand so that he could stay afloat with all of that armor...).

To me, in the books, it would be that Isildur's men would fight a rear-guard action while allowing him to escape with his squires. The men are overrun, and the pursuit begins. Isildur could have fled invisibly, sending his squires in another direction to lead the orcs awry, yet it seems to me that he stayed with them as long as he could. It even may have been that he, nobly, thought that he could stay the pursuit using the Ring while his squires got away safely. He sends his useless sword away. The orcs, seeing the King, chase after him instead. Maybe the Ring had pumped up his ego a bit, but maybe he thought to be able to get away.

But at the river his plan goes wrong.

Anyway, short reply is that I still think that the scene doesn't portray the account from the books. Yes, there is "Ring," "Isildur" and "water," but I think that the rest of the words are completely different.