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Isildur was marching north along the east banks of the River , and near the Gladden Fields he was waylaid by the Orcs of the Mountains, and almost all his folk were slain. He leaped into the waters, but the Ring slipped from his finger as he swam, and then the Orcs saw him and killed him with arrows.
The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), Book I, Chapter 2: "The Shadow of the Past"; said by Gandalf. | ||
