The Gladden Fields - Isildur's luckiest battle

[Keith K]

What do y'all think about Isildur's demise at the Gladden Fields? Is that not the luckiest death in all of these histories? Imagine Isildur making it home to set up his kingdom bearing the ring! How long could he have resisted its evil? I suggest he was already falling under its spell since he refused to cast it into the fire that was at hand. It would have changed him very quickly as he ruled as the High King of a united realm. The line of Isildur would have become accursed and the civil war of the Kin-strife would have been as childs play to the revolution that would have eventually occured as those Dunedain who would resist evil banded together against their brothers. Fortunately he was High King for only a short while and died before he could cause irreparable harm to his family. That must be the luckiest death in all of Middle Earth!