Connection.

[Raynor]

Originally Posted by Beanamir of Gondor

I wonder if PJ's decision to have Isildur killed by arrows linked in any way to Boromir's death by Uruk arrows?

It wasn't just PJ's decision

Originally Posted by The disaster of the Gladden Fields, Unfinished Tales

There [Isildur] rose up out of the water: only a mortal man, a small creature lost and abandoned in the wilds of Middle-earth. But to the night-eyed Orcs that lurked there on the watch he loomed up, a monstrous shadow of fear, with a piercing eye like a star. They loosed their poisoned arrows at it, and fled. Needlessly, for Isildur unarmed was pierced through heart and throat, and without a cry he fell back into the water.