Elrond knew about the importance of the ring and why it needed to be destroyed. Why didn't he immediately go on a search and recovery expedition upon learning of Isildur's fate, especially since Isildur was coming to Rivendell to give the ring to Elrond anyways?
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He did passed through Greenwood the Great or Mirkwood. Did the numenoreans visit Thranduil before the disaster?
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After Sauron was defeated by Elendil and Gil-Galad, how would he know specifically that Isildur took the ring and that Isildur died at Gladden Fields with the Ring in the Anduin River? It's not like Sauron had a chain of custody report of the Ring after it was taken from him.
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I'm sure this is nothing new, but why was Isildur even matching up the Anduin? He'd have leave his own lands and have to cross the Misty Mountains to return to Arnor that way. Why not return via Eriador?
When Gandalf is recounting the White Council's discussions about the Ring, Saruman states that the Ring is lost in the depths of the sea. This has always seemed a somewhat unlikely explanation, given the distance (hundreds of miles?) between the Gladden Fields and the mouth of and Anduin. Especially when the river grows wider and slower, it's hard to see a ring made of gold (very heavy) rolling all that distance on its own - but all of the White Council seem to be convinced by this explanation.
Saruman was the expert here, and they didn't have any reason not to trust him, but even so, it seems like a bit of a stretch. His voice certainly has power (as we see elsewhere), so that may also be a factor.
But when I was re-reading the Council of Elrond, I couldn't help noticing the phrasing that Saruman uses. He doesn't say "it rolled down the River", he says "it was rolled down River":
> "At the worst," said he, "our Enemy knows that we have it not and that it still is lost. But what was lost may yet be found, he thinks. Fear not! His hope will cheat him. Have I not earnestly studied this matter? Into Anduin the Great it fell; and long ago, while Sauron slept, it was rolled down the River to the Sea. There let it lie until the End."
Does this this perhaps him suggesting that there was some other power at work here (Ulmo?), who played an active part in making sure that the Ring ended up in the sea? It would certainly make it a more convincing argument.
There are two other times the phrase "was rolled" are used in The Fellowship of the Ring. One is in Frodo's dream in the house of Tom Bombadil:
> That night they heard no noises. But either in his dreams or out of them, he could not tell which, Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind; a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise.
The other is when he's alone in the Barrow Downs, just before being seized by the barrow-wight:
> He imagined suddenly that he caught a muffled cry, and he made towards it; and even as he went forward the mist was rolled up and thrust aside, and the starry sky was unveiled.
Neither of these cases seem like natural events - they appear to be in influence of the Valar (allowing passage to the Undying Lands) and the barrow-wight (controlling the mist) respectivel
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As the title says. Ulmo is said to be the most involved of the Valar in ME after the first age and still had some connection to the land. Was he aware that Isildur had died where he did and that the ring had been in a reachable river for thousands of years? Could he have told the Istari about this before they went to ME as a little heads up?
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He fought Sauron face to face and was a skilled and honorable warrior. Did the influence of the Ring make him cowardly? Was he being evacuated to safety Secret Service to US President style?
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Elrond knew about the importance of the ring and why it needed to be destroyed. Why didn't he immediately go on a search and recovery expedition upon learning of Isildur's fate, especially since Isildur was coming to Rivendell to give the ring to Elrond anyways?
After Sauron was defeated by Elendil and Gil-Galad, how would he know specifically that Isildur took the ring and that Isildur died at Gladden Fields with the Ring in the Anduin River? It's not like Sauron had a chain of custody report of the Ring after it was taken from him.
He fought Sauron face to face and was a skilled and honorable warrior. Did the influence of the Ring make him cowardly? Was he being evacuated to safety Secret Service to US President style?
