A History of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, Part 2: Re: Re: Re: Response to discussion with Kharan

» Michael_Martinez - Re: Re: Re: Response to discussion with Kharan

In response to message posted by proudfoot:

The passage I had in mind does not mention Isildur after all. This is the first version of Elrond's historical narrative for the Ring, published in The Return of the Shadow, in which he says:

...And at last Sauron came out in person, and wrestled with Gilgalad, and Elendil came to his rescue, and both were mortally wounded; but Sauron was thrown down, and his bodily shape was destroyed....

In the published account, Elrond says:

...I beheld the last combat on the slopes of Orodruin, where Gil-galad died, and Elendil fell, and Narsil broke beneath him; but Sauron himself was overthrown, and Isildur cut the Ring from his hand with the hilt-shard of his father's sword, and took it for his own.

It would appear that, unless I have forgotten some other account of this final battle between Sauron and his Second Age foes, I inferred Isildur's late arrival from the combination of these two descriptions of the event.

-- posted by Michael_Martinez