Why did no-one stop Isildur?

"When Elrond led Isildur to Mount Doom to destroy the Ring and Isildur refused why did Elrond just let him walk away? Couldn't Elrond have

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I just thought about this. If Elrond took the Ring from Isildur and destroyed it at that instant, neither of them will survive because Mt. Doom will explode. They wouldn't be saved by the Eagles also because the Eagles aren't present at that time. But then again...maybe they are. But just think about it. Elrond and Isildur both dead..and Arwen wouldn't have his daddy telling her to stay away from Aragorn until he becomes King. Every plot will be absent if this happened. 😄

the people in the movies hear you, they just choose to ignore you. jerks.....
whack him Sam! whack him!!

Originally posted by shadowy_blue
I just thought about this. If Elrond took the Ring from Isildur and destroyed it at that instant, neither of them will survive because Mt. Doom will explode. They wouldn't be saved by the Eagles also because the Eagles aren't present at that time. But then again...maybe they are. But just think about it. Elrond and Isildur both dead..and Arwen wouldn't have his daddy telling her to stay away from Aragorn until he becomes King. Every plot will be absent if this happened. 😄

Actually... Arwen was born after the Last Alliance, so, if Elrond was dead, Arwen would have never been born... and Aragorn would have meet Eowyn and married her, so Faramir would have ended all alone.

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poor Faramir. eek! what if Aragorn married Eowyn instead??!!!! ahhhh!!!!

I would like that better, but I like Eowyn and Faramir.

Éowyn and Aragorn??! AAAH! Somehow, that scares me...

I like Éowyn/Faramir.

well if Elrond were dead, then he couldn't have raised Aragorn, and if Aragorn had not learned his true heritage then he'd be just a ranger for life...nor would he have gone on to the world in search of adventures for the love of Arwen. Alas Gondor would have been lost long ago had he not been there to turn the tide as Thorongil, etc. etc. etc.

All he would do is roam about, and he'd wonder why he was living and he'd just stay that way, poor aragorn!

his mom told him about his heritage, not Elrond. he lived in Rivendale to keep him safe from Sauron.

Rivendell. And to keep him safe from Boromir and Faramir. 😛

who needs saving from Faramir????? he's so nice!

well, I liked him in the book, but in the movie, he seemed quite evil to sam and frodo for a while. But then he gets very nice. I lurve Faramir. He's quite cool.

in the movie..... i go by the book. he's so cool either way, but Peter Jackson was kinda mean to him, what w/ the attempting to steal the ring and such.

I know! Book is almost always better.

Originally posted by shadowy_blue
I just thought about this. If Elrond took the Ring from Isildur and destroyed it at that instant, neither of them will survive because Mt. Doom will explode. They wouldn't be saved by the Eagles also because the Eagles aren't present at that time. B

no no. Mt doom only exploded because Sauron was, more or less, forced to use Barad-dur as a 'body' and when the ring was destroyed so was he. and so the tower came down crashing causing huge tremors throughout Gorgoroth, making the volcanic state of doom unstable...
back in the day, it would have been fine... (me thinks)

soory, work related alchol consumption has made me less than coherrrrrnt.... 🤣 😮‍💨

filthy little director, he made Faramir look bad........ 😠