isildur and the ring - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Eöl · 12-10-2003, 10:44 AM

Unless i'm terribly forgetting alot of things, this is just a scene made up in the movie. They never actually ventured into mt. doom. After Isildur cut the ring from Sauron's hand he just claimed it as his own.
Elrond and Cirdan who stood by him counselled him to cast it into the fires of orodruin, this way sauron would be destroyed, but Isildur refused and claimed the ring as a weregild for his father and brother.

They COULD have forced him, but this would surely lead to total enstrangement between the races and after all they swore an Alliance

12-10-2003, 10:44 AM	#2
Eöl Animated Skeleton Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Nan Elmoth Posts: 35	Unless i'm terribly forgetting alot of things, this is just a scene made up in the movie. They never actually ventured into mt. doom. After Isildur cut the ring from Sauron's hand he just claimed it as his own. Elrond and Cirdan who stood by him counselled him to cast it into the fires of orodruin, this way sauron would be destroyed, but Isildur refused and claimed the ring as a weregild for his father and brother. They COULD have forced him, but this would surely lead to total enstrangement between the races and after all they swore an Alliance __________________ '...though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again,from you and from me a new star shall arise' -Huor